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

Ann Cotton

An ambassador for education in the poorest parts of Africa, Ann started the NGO CAMFED, Campaign for Female Education, in 1993. The program supports female education and empowerment, health and microfinance loans in the poorest African countries like Zimbabwe, Zambia, Ghana, and Tanzania. Today, it benefits over 400,000 children, and many program graduates are now rural businesswomen. For her efforts, Ann was awarded the Order of the British Empire as well as UK Social Entrepreneur of the Year among other awards. I admire her for her selflessness, her ability to identify and change social problems, her vision, her initiative, and her organization that spreads female empowerment.

Pagan writer

for sounds. for lyrics. for imagination. for courage. for having one of the greatest voices ever. for inspiration.

Alice is a woman who has the same belief system I do about nutrition and children. The difference is she is actually doing something to improve others’ lives today.

Wikipedia describes Alice as:

Her ideas for “edible education” have been introduced into the entire Berkeley school system, and with the current crisis in childhood obesity, have attracted the attention of the national media.[1] She is a leading advocate of a multi-billion dollar stimulus package that works to give every child in the public school system free breakfast, lunch, and an afternoon snack.[2] She states that taxpayers should endorse this package because we are already paying for it in terms of our health.

Waters advocates eating locally produced foods that are in season, because she believes that the international shipment of mass-produced food is both harmful to the environment and produces an inferior product for the consumer[citation needed].

Mildred Loving

Mildred Loving, along with her husband, Richard, had the courage to stand up against the State of Virginia, which, along with several other states in the nation, maintained laws on their books that declared that love should not cross color lines.

It seems especially appropriate to celebrate the Lovings when, 42 years later, states are still telling consenting adults who they can or cannot commit to in a loving marital relationship.

The Lovings, Mildred walking with their daughter

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The international specialist on CNN

reading through several pages of posts here…pretty astounding! You don’t generally hear much about the non-traditional contributions of women (like inventing Kevlar!).

I like this goal.

Sinéad O’Connor

Mainly because I admire her courage in publicly speaking out against the blind eye the Catholic Church turned towards child abuse long before it became commonly accepted. Also because she did not allow the actions (and inactions) of a church to destroy her personal faith.

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The title character of one of Roald Dahl’s books.

Layne Beachley