Who were some inspirational women through the ages?

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Mae West - an American actress, singer, comedian, scriptwriter, and playwright whose career spanned more than 70 years. One of her phrases; You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Dame Nellie Melba - Internationally renowned opera singer of the late 19th and 20th centuries. A tireless worker with charities during the 1st world war. A mentor to countless aspiring artists known as "Melba's Girls"

Rosa Parks - The "mother of the civil rights movement". Rosa Parks profoundly changed America by sparking the modern Civil Rights Movement. Her refusal to give up her bus seat on December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, initiated a 13-month boycott that led to the Supreme Court ruling segregation on public buses unconstitutional, ultimately inspiring national action against systemic racism.

Princess Diana - The People's Princess, Diana transformed charitable work by visiting and comforting those with HIV/AIDS, leprosy, and homelessness, breaking down social stigmas. Diana showed compassion for all marginalised people.
 
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Mae West - an American actress, singer, comedian, scriptwriter, and playwright whose career spanned more than 70 years. One of her phrases; You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Dame Nellie Melba - Internationally renowned opera singer of the late 19th and 20th centuries. A tireless worker with charities during the 1st world war. A mentor to countless aspiring artists known as "Melba's Girls"

Rosa Parks - The "mother of the civil rights movement". Rosa Parks profoundly changed America by sparking the modern Civil Rights Movement. Her refusal to give up her bus seat on December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, initiated a 13-month boycott that led to the Supreme Court ruling segregation on public buses unconstitutional, ultimately inspiring national action against systemic racism.

Princess Diana - The People's Princess, Diana transformed charitable work by visiting and comforting those with HIV/AIDS, leprosy, and homelessness, breaking down social stigmas. Diana showed compassion for all marginalised people.
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Diana no..everything she did was to manipulate people.....



What about Florence nightingale..Marie Curie... Queen Elizabeth ... Helen Keller ?
 
Jane Austen (1775–1817) One of the most famous female authors of all time, Jane Austen wrote several novels, which remain highly popular today. These include Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Northanger Abbey. Jane Austen wrote at a time when female writers were not encouraged, helping pave the way for future writers.


Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) American Campaigner against slavery and for the promotion of women’s and workers rights. She began campaigning within the temperance movement and this convinced her of the necessity for women to have the vote. She toured the US giving countless speeches on the subjects of human rights.


Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910) Born in Britain, Blackwell was the first woman to receive a medical degree in America and the first woman to be on the UK medical register. Blackwell helped to break down social barriers, enabling women to be accepted as doctors.


Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958) British Chemist who made significant contributions to understanding the structure of DNA and RNA, which led to the discovery of the DNA double helix. Franklin also worked on the chemistry of coal and viruses.
 
Emma Goldman. 1869-1940
Russian immigrant to NYC
Political activist. Revolutionary. Not a communist. Free thinker and lover. Anarchist with responsibility.
Arrested for inciting to riot and dispensing birth control information.
Conspired in working against the new draft.
Although originally backing the Bolsheviks she changed her mind when learning their true intentions.

All in all My Kind of Gal. She was a great inspiration to me and I admired her very much. Still do though haven’t thought of her in ages. She was first to come to my mind when @Bretrick asked the question.
 
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Audrey Hepburn is the first woman who came to my mind. She made a huge difference in her short life of 63 years. As a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador from 1988 until her death in 1993, she brought global attention to starving children in over 20 countries, raised millions for aid, and advocated for children's rights.
 
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Diana no..everything she did was to manipulate people.....

What about Marie Curie?
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Marie Curie 1867–1934. A physicist and chemist who pioneered research on radioactivity, a term she coined. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and remains the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields, Physics and Chemistry. She discovered the elements polonium and radium.
Marie Curie was Polish born who became a naturalised French citizen. Born Maria Skłodowska in Warsaw in 1867, she moved to Paris in 1891 for her studies and married French physicist Pierre Curie. She is celebrated as a Polish/French scientist, renowned for her pioneering work on radioactivity.

Mother Teresa 1910–1997: A Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity, dedicating her life to helping the poor in India.
 
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Marie Curie 1867–1934. A physicist and chemist who pioneered research on radioactivity, a term she coined. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and remains the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields, Physics and Chemistry. She discovered the elements polonium and radium.
Marie Curie was Polish born who became a naturalised French citizen. Born Maria Skłodowska in Warsaw in 1867, she moved to Paris in 1891 for her studies and married French physicist Pierre Curie. She is celebrated as a Polish/French scientist, renowned for her pioneering work on radioactivity.

Mother Teresa 1910–1997: A Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity, dedicating her life to helping the poor in India.
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yes I know all that... that's why I suggested her name !
 
Corrie ten Boom

Cornelia Arnolda Johanna "Corrie" ten Boom (15 April 1892[1] – 15 April 1983) was a Dutch watchmaker and later a Christian writer and public speaker, who worked with her father, Casper ten Boom, her sister Betsie ten Boom and other family members to help many Jewish people escape from the Nazis during the Holocaust in World War II by hiding them in her home. They were caught, and she was arrested and sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Her most famous book, The Hiding Place, is a biography that recounts the story of her family's efforts and how she found and shared hope in God while she was imprisoned at the concentration camp.
 

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Nancy Wake, The White Mouse, she was so good the Aussies claimed she was Australian born.

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Nancy Wake, The White Mouse Of The French Resistance​

Nancy Wake was an Australian-born French Resistance fighter who evaded the Gestapo and saved thousands of lives during World War II. She was a skilled spy, saboteur, and leader who earned the nickname of the White Mouse and many medals of honor.
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Nancy Wake, the White Mouse​

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Rachael Blampied in Nancy Wake, the White Mouse (2014)


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4158112/mediaviewer/rm2855612416/?ref_=tt_ov_i

Docu-drama telling the story of an extraordinary undercover agent who worked with the resistance against Nazi Germany, evading the Gestapo while on their most-wanted list.


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Rachael Blampied

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Owen Black

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7xris-89911

One gutsy and brave woman​


I'd not heard of Nancy Wake until I stumbled upon this tv film on YouTube history documentaries. Well aware of the SOE missions flown to France launched from Tangmere airfield in West Sussex, including those of Violette Szabo ( see Carve her name with Pride 1958 film ).I found this account of Nancy Wake's wartime life a fascinating watch despite the interrupting verbal interjections from her biographer etc.
It was reasonably well executed despite a average script in places, but hey, Nancy's exploits far outshine my critical nit-picking. Worth a watch as she contributed to give us all valuable peacetime today.
10beasleysteve

An Excellent Docudrama​


Rachael Lampied stars as Nancy Wake, a French Resistance Agent during the Third Reich's occupation of France. It's sad that Germans and the Third Reich were made out to be villainous, but that's Hollywood. She was from New Zealand, my old country. I took a vacation there in March of 2001, decided to stay and returned to the States in November 2011. The fair-haired Rachael looks amazing as a brunette. There's nothin' like a dame! 💃🏻
8johnironbear

An Amazing Woman.. Worth The Watch If You're Interested In WWII HistoryExcellent Docu-Drama.​


This woman was incredible and a freedom fighter who well deserved to be honored. I don't watch a lot of docu-dramas but this was well done in my opinion, and it was well acted and has historical relevance. One reviewer discounted it due to people claiming to have spoken with her, but she lived until 2011 and died just three weeks shy of her 99th birthday, so there is no question that they could have spoken with to her in person. Had they not they wouldn't be in the film to begin with. So if you're a history buff this is well worth a watch.
This video also is a point of related personal interest, a relative of mine was a fighter pilot in WWII and was shot down over France while trying to protect a bomber squadron that was trying to take out Nazi supply lines, and I couldn't help but think about him as I watched this. He died, but one of the bombers he was most trying to protect crash landed and all but one (the belly gunner) survived and they got out of France and made back to England safely because of the French Resistance. I'm sure they were all very grateful for people like her, if not actually TO her whether directly or indirectly.
8jackigansch

Interesting film about an extraordinary woman​


I enjoyed this film. There are few films about the S.O.E. and even fewer about women in the S.O.E. So it was a treat to see the story of a real hero of WWII.
6pdbsm

Something here is very amiss..​


I'm watching Nancy Wake: Gestapo's Most Wanted, a 2014 production about the incredibly brave and awe-inspiring heroine from New Zealand who courageously helped the French Resistance first hand in France during WWII. Her story is remarkable and deserves EVeryone's attention.

My problem is with this rather sketchy production. While the docudrama is decently told, there's one overwhelmingly glaring problem: the so-called eyewitness testimonies scattered throughout the film are by 50-60-70 year old men who claim they spoke with her and knew her, and worse ACT like they were there in WWII alongside her.

Nothing is or can be further from the truth. The film was made in 2014. She was born in 1912 (so she was about 28-33 during WWII). These supposed eye-witnesses were at most young children or WEREN'T EVEN BORN YET!!

While I understand these "eye-witness" are probably journalist-historians who interviewed her 50-60 years after the fact (she died in 2011), the fimmaker's representations that they "knew her" are eXtremely misleading. They knew her as a very, VeRY elderly lady. And while there's nothing wrong with that - nothing at all - something is Very Wrong (and unnecessary) in their attempts to mislead the viewer into believing they were there with her in WWII, when there is no possible way that could have been the case.

It's cheap.

Nancy Wake and her incredible story deserve far better.

Nancy's story deserves to be told, but not through deceptions like this. And for that reason in particular, I give this docudrama a rating of about 6.5/10.

As for Nancy Wake the war heroine, she deserves, oh.. at least about 100 out of 10 stars.~ pdb.

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