list 50 women little girls should admire instead of symbols of stupidity and weakness

In honor of my mother & grandmother I pick Dolores Huerta. An advocate for farm workers rights, she stood side by side with Cesar Chavez & marched for OUR rights. I say “Our” rights because I come from a family of farm workers. Truth be told I myself picked fruits & nuts as a child. At the time I never would have thought of it as work as I enjoyed being “at work” with my parents & playing outside getting dirty! I never realized the extent of the work & what those people, my people! Were going through, the conditions of it all. She fought for them all!

Dolores was arrested 20 plus times for participating in marches & strikes (all peaceful!)and she was brutally beaten by SF police during 1 of the protests. A woman who practically gave her life for something she believed in, fighting for others to be treated equally…definitely a woman worth looking up to.

In my book anyway.

The first woman honored the Congressional Medal of Honor. She was one of the earliest woman to graduate from Syracuse Medical College…volunteered her services during the Civil War. She was not allowed to practice as a surgeon though. She was only allowed to act as a nurse & spy. She was held prisoner for several months upon her release she was finally allowed to practice. She was far ahead of her time…refusing to wear dresses “as women should” she wore bloomers under her dresses. She also took the word “OBEY” out of her wedding vows haha I LOVE it. She was given her Medal of Honor on November 11, 1865…it was revoked in 1917 she refused to return it or acknowledge that they had revoked it. In 1977 president Jimmy Carter restored her Medal of Honor.

An amazing example of woman who should be admired for what she did.

I local for us…Julia went to Paris in 1896, learned French, and passed her entrance exams in the fall of 1898, becoming the first woman ever admitted to the architectural division within the École. her work can be found all over the Bay Area where she was born & raised…I’ve also had the pleasure of touring Hearst Castle in Sansimeon Ca. Julia was first denied the chance to study her craft in Paris because they weren’t accepting women. When she finally test hed she failed it the first time. It didn’t stop her from retesting and passing becoming the first woman to attend. She is very inspiring and the fact that she is a local & I can actually take my girls to see this lovely womans work is just awesome!

or more commonly known as the woman who hid Anne Frank. A very courageous woman who did what she felt was right in heart regardless of the dangers that could have come her way.

A former airline hostess who volunteered at an orangutan sanctuary for four years who established the Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Reintroduction Project in 1999.

She rescues orphaned Orangutans and rehabilitates them before releasing them back out into the wild. There’s a series about her and her project currently running on Animal planet. She’s doing amazing work & I’d love for my girls to be inspired by a woman like her.

The Mirabal sisters…all 4 of them, the three that were murdered on their way home from visiting their imprisoned husbands and the one who was left to raise her nieces and nephews after her sisters assassinations. I was so incredibly moved by the movie and their story. Their fight their struggles they are women to be admired. After watching this movie about their lives I was compelled to find out as much as possible my heart aches for the pain this family suffered.

Tonight as I looked up more info on their lives I came across this…
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0DE3DC123FF936A25751C0A961958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

The 3 sisters will forever be in my heart. I will forever honor these women and what they stood for. ♥

Thank you, to another member who brought these two girls to my attention. She posted this blog in her goal about 9 months ago and I sorta borrowed it.

It’s about 2 girls Anna & Jenny who did a Science fair project when they were 14 years old. They tested the Vitamin C content of their favorite juices, only to find that one very popular drink that claimed to have 4 times the vitamin C of oranges actually had FAR less than that.

The girls took their findings to the company which blew them off at first. But it all came out in the end and the company GlaxoSmithKline was hit with a HEFTY HEFTY fine. WAY TO GO GIRLS!!

It makes me so happy to see two smart little girls having fun with school & coming out on top for something good!! I can only hope my daughter see’s these articles & sees that it’s not all about the stuff you see on tv. :)

Their story

The Court Case

Interview with the girls

I would hope my two girls would grow up to admire somebody like Frida Khalo. A real woman, true to who she was & where she came from til the very end. She was an artist & painted from her heart everything she painted was of her own raw emotions. Not afraid of them or putting them out there for the world to see.

She was not your super model type by any means but she owned who he was. She was not ashamed of how she looked & was proud of herself head to toe.

Kahlo was noted for her exceptional beauty and unconventional appearance, declining to remove her facial hair (she had a small mustache and unibrow which she exaggerated in self portraits) and donning flamboyantly-styled clothing inspired by traditional Mexican dress.

She grew up & survived so much in her life time. An accident that nearly ended her life, polio, gangrene, miscarriages, depression, neglect, and she still managed to follow her passion. She is a true woman in my opinion who should be admired for her strength and her beauty!

with recent news of Britney Spears lil sister Jamie Lynn Spears being pregnant at 16 Iam just floored. First it was Vanessa Hudgens and her naked pictures and now Jamie Lynn and my 10 year old LOVES these lil girls. I can’t stress enough to my daughter about whats right & wrong I often talk with her about teenage pregnancy and stuff like this But good lord when their idols are doing it…they see it as being cool and that scares me. I have to have faith that what Ive told her has sunken in…but still you can’t help but have some fear in you. :( Im in shock. Has their mother taught them anything about birth control!?