Female Icons and role models...

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Um, I realised my fence sitting on the trashy slu*ty women thread may be due to some of my formative role models..in no particular order they were and some still are:-

Marlene Dietrich
Debbie Harry
Janis Joplin
Bette Davis
Marriane Faithfull
Sylvia Plath
P J Harvey
Siouxsie Sioux
Mae West
The heroines of the Womens Suffrage movement in the UK
Vivienne Westwood
Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth..mainly because I thought she was uber cool)
Tove Jannsen (author of the Moomins books, and very probably AS, although a lesbian in unpopular times)
Elsa Schiaparelli
Greta Garbo

Anyone else have any to add?

I don't expect everyone to agree or know who these women are - but I think I know where you're going with this, Ligea.

I was VERY fortunate to grow up with more female role models than any other generation before me.

I have some girlie girls on this list - but they all represent the best traits of women. Strong, and in most cases, kind.

Ann Richards
Michelle Obama
Angelina Jolie
Diane Feinstein
Audrey Hepburn
Carrie Fisher
Eleanor Roosevelt
Queen Noor
Sheryl Crow
Susan Sarandon
Venus and Serena Williams (Two for one?)
Princess Diana
Katherine Hepburn
KD Lang
Ellen Degeneres
Robin Roberts
Halle Berry
Linda McCartney
Patsy Cline
Martha Stewart (!) No, really!
Gilda Radner
Danica Patrick


Oh, golly. I know I'm forgetting a bunch - they'll come to me. More later...

Oh gosh yes, Carrie Fisher! And she's dry and funny as well. I also love Dally Parton's one liners (Guilty pleasure, 9-5 is one of my favourite films ) Unfortunately, Margaret Thatchers political stance disqualifies her for me...

Oh, heck yeah! And while we're at it:

Jane Fonda
Lily Tomlin

Dare I add Courtney Love? I dunno - there's just something about her. And Francis Bean is adorable - so she's doing something right.

Katherine Hepburn
Nancy Pelosi
Isadora Duncan
Sylvia Plath
Ingrid Bergman
Loren Bacall
Eleanor Roosevelt
Hillary Clinton

there must be more

Merle

Judith Wright (australian poet)
Elsabeth Cummings (australian painter)
Sister Wendy (art critic - who is a beatiful eccentric and an excellent critic.)
Iris Murdoch
Jane Goodall
Gillian Welch
Lucinda Williams
Katherine Hepburn
Mae West
Minnie Mouse
Bette Davis
Patti Smith
Mary Cassat
Camille Claudel
Anais Nin
Frida Kahlo
Sheryl Crow
Whoopi Goldberg
Cleopatra
Sappho
Sylvia Plath
Billie Holiday
Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas.
Barbarella
Any lifesize blow up doll
My mother
Helen Frankenthaler
Susan Rothenberg
Janis Jopln
Joan Baez
Hildegaard von Bingen
Linda Lovelace

and last but not least

EDNA MODE from The Incredibles

Minnie Mouse. Really. I can't see any reason not to hold her up - so ok!

Here are some more:

Jennifer Saunders
Tina Weymouth
Helen Keller
Jane Goodall
Dorothy Parker (As mentioned in the original topic)
Christiane Amanpour
Marie Curie

Dawn French
The Brontes
Hillary Clinton
Hatshepsut
Anna Sewell
Lily Allen
Sappho
Cleopatra
Elizabeth I

Some of those have already been mentioned, but hey.

well i was goig to include Tina Weymouth....
and jane goodall is high on mylist. My nephew worked at one of her compounds in aFrica and she is pretty amazing.


I had to inlcude Minnie.... I am a mimic - a very adept mimic, and i do her voice. Technically of coure, it is not her voice, but what the heck...The bow pulls me in too.

Also,

LISA SIMPSON

I still remember the first time i saw Lisa. I was at that point in time a barfly on methadone, drinking beer, living at a boarding house full of rabble and autisics who had been tossed out of government shelters when the Health Policy strategy was for assimilation into the community.

I was in a pub in Newtown in Sydney.

I sat on a bar stool and drank my beer, sloshed. Then...I saw her....A dazzling little ray of light with that saxophone and a particulalry delightful prosody and mode of articulation not unlike my own.
the rest is history.

Having just spotted Tyne Daly on Greys Anatomy, have to add her, and Sharon Gless, or rather "Cagney and Lacey" (I didn't know TV wasn't real when I was little)