Most important women in world history?
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Topic: Most important women in world history?
Posted By: Maharbbal
Subject: Most important women in world history?
Date Posted: 28-Mar-2006 at 09:41
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Hi ladies, Who are the most important women in world history? Is there a female way to greatness or are they just copy cats of their male counterparts? Who are your heroins? Will dudes survive the chicks uprising that will occure sooner or latter? Bye. ------------- I am a free donkey! |
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Posted By: morticia
Date Posted: 28-Mar-2006 at 22:53
Well, let's hope the dudes survive, because us chicks can't live without 'em! I love dudes, man 
But in answer to your inquiry, here are just a few whom I consider to be very important and influential women in world history: Jane Addams Susan B. Anthony Marie Antoinette Saint Joan of Arc Aspasia of Miletus Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Jane Austen Ella Baker Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike Clara Barton Florence Bascom Simone de Beauvoir Aphra Behn Ruth Fulton Benedict Shirley Temple Black Elizabeth Blackwell Bonnie Kathleen Blair Rosa Bonheur Louise Arner Boyd Pearl S. Buck Marie Anne de Cupis de Camargo Rachel Carson Catherine the Great St. Catherine Chien-shiung Wu Cleopatra Juana Ines de la Cruz Marie Curie Agnes George de Mille Emily Dickinson Amelia Earhart Marian Wright Edelman Eleanor of Aquitane Beatrix Jones Farrand Edith Flanigen Anne Frank Rosalind Elsie Franklin Betty Naomi Friedan Elizabeth Gurney Fry Margaret Fuller Indira Gandhi Sarah and Angelina Grimke Caroline Lucretia Herschel Judith E. Heumann Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin Ariel Hollinshead Mary Phelps Jacob Helen Keller Billie Jean King Aleksandra Mikhaylovna Kollontai Elizabeth Kubler-Ross Susette La Flesche Tibbles Maya Lin Juliette Gordon Low Anne Sullivan Macy Wilma Mankiller Barbara McClintock Catherine de Medici Lise Meitner Rigoberta Menchu Tum Maria Montessori Mother Theresa Baroness Murasaki Shikibu Florence Nightingale Georgia O'Keeffe Vijaya Lakshimi Pandit Emmeline Pankhurst Rosa Parks Eva Peron Christine de Pizan Pocahontas Queen Anne Queen Elizabeth I Queen Isabella Queen Victoria Jeannette Rankin Sally Ride Alexandra Romanov Eleanor Roosevelt Sakajawea Margaret Sanger Sappho Rose Schneiderman Gloria Steinem Lucy Stone Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Russell Strong Bertha von Suttner Emma Tenayuca Valentina Vladimirovna Nikolayeva Tereshkova Margaret Thatcher Alexandrine Pieternella Francoise Tinne Sojourner Truth Harriet Tubman Tz'u Hsi and the list goes on and on and on............ ------------- "Morty Trust in God: She will provide." -- Emmeline Pankhurst |
Posted By: Maziar
Date Posted: 28-Mar-2006 at 23:42
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Rosa Luxemburg
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Posted By: mamikon
Date Posted: 29-Mar-2006 at 00:26
Tamar the Great? 
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Posted By: Paul
Date Posted: 29-Mar-2006 at 06:30
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Posted By: azimuth
Date Posted: 29-Mar-2006 at 06:50
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i guess the most important/famouse/influential historical female figur in history will be Mary mother of Jesus pbut. ------------- 
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Posted By: Maju
Date Posted: 29-Mar-2006 at 08:12
Not actually: assuming she existed, she did little of relevance.  Much more important could be the following political leaders: Hatsepsut of Egypt, Isalbel I of Castile, Elizabeth I of England, Marie Therese of Austria and her daughter Marie Caroline of Naples and Sicily, Indira Ghandi... and possibly others that I can't recall right now. ------------- 
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Posted By: azimuth
Date Posted: 29-Mar-2006 at 08:28
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we are not talking about achievements nor favorites, importance wise , i guess Mary was and still important. there are people who worship her. -------- Elizabeth I and Nefertiti and Cleopatra those are famouse for their political positions, but in my opinion if you go by "most" important it would be Mary.
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Posted By: Decebal
Date Posted: 29-Mar-2006 at 10:14
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Good list Morty! I would add: Queen Mary of Romania
------------- What is history but a fable agreed upon? Napoleon Bonaparte Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.- Mohandas Gandhi 
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Posted By: Maju
Date Posted: 29-Mar-2006 at 10:50
There are not. There are people who venerate her but just because she raplaces the concept of Mother Godess that was and is so important to Euro-Mediterranean psyche before the triumph of Judaistic monotheism: if God is Love, then God must be Mother - or some logic of the sort. In any case it's not for her personal merits but for the collective merits of all mothers, including Mother Earth, that are somehow impersonated in such archetype - and archetype anyhow that is milennia older than the Christianity or even Judaism. -------------
NO GOD, NO MASTER! |
Posted By: Tublecain
Date Posted: 29-Mar-2006 at 11:11
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It would have to be Eve! ------------- Nothing is new except arrangement |
Posted By: edgewaters
Date Posted: 29-Mar-2006 at 11:41
There are some who come awfully close to worship ... particularly in areas where Catholicism is relatively new, eg Latin America or parts of Africa. If archaeologists in ten thousand years were deprived of written records and could only go by artifacts, they would have a difficult time coming to any conclusion other than that she was a deity. In the same way, saints are not altogether different from lesser deities of pantheistic religions. People pray to them for intecession and invoke them in ritual, and like pantheistic deities, every saint is a patron of a trade, region, or class. The official terms for the veneration of the saints is "cultus sanctorum" which literally translates as Cults of the Holy. In the middle ages, the saints had more supernatural powers than many ancient gods: they could cure the sick, end famines, drive away demons, stop fires, or even sponsor someone's entry into heaven. Their powers could often be accessed via the possession of a relic. Often the difference between veneration and worship seems a bit semantical. |
Posted By: Maju
Date Posted: 29-Mar-2006 at 12:28
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Well this would be a discussion on its own - I don't want to hijack the topic, so let it be.
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NO GOD, NO MASTER! |
Posted By: ulrich von hutten
Date Posted: 29-Mar-2006 at 12:56
Posted By: Exarchus
Date Posted: 29-Mar-2006 at 13:23
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Richard I the Lionheart Alexander the Great ------------- Vae victis! |
Posted By: morticia
Date Posted: 29-Mar-2006 at 13:25
I was unaware that these two were women! ------------- "Morty Trust in God: She will provide." -- Emmeline Pankhurst |
Posted By: Aurelia
Date Posted: 29-Mar-2006 at 14:47
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Obviously, I don't know them all, so PLEASE don't yell at me for not naming really important ones that just slipped my mind Hatshepsut Susan B. Anthony Catherine the Great Wu Zetian Golda Meir Elizabeth I of England Coretta Scott King (RIP) Rosa Parks (RIP) Isabella of Castile-Leon Catherine d'Medici Mary of Anjou (later of England) Marie Curie Kate Chopin
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Posted By: Maju
Date Posted: 29-Mar-2006 at 16:07
"The Hidden history of women" by Exarchus. Soon in all bookstores around the World! -------------
NO GOD, NO MASTER! |
Posted By: morticia
Date Posted: 30-Mar-2006 at 10:43
 You noticed it too, eh?
Here are a few more influential and important women in world history: Yoshiko Uchida Phyllis Wheatley Mary Wollstonecraft Rosalyn Sussman Yalow ------------- "Morty Trust in God: She will provide." -- Emmeline Pankhurst |
Posted By: poirot
Date Posted: 30-Mar-2006 at 18:48
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Lucretia Borgia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ------------- AAAAAAAAAA "The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow.� ~ HG Wells |
Posted By: Mila
Date Posted: 30-Mar-2006 at 19:08
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Most of the important ones are probably those we know nothing about.
For example, Albert Einstein's Serbian wife - whom he said himself he
would've been nothing but a simply-minded beggar without. I couldn't
even tell you her name - Mileva or something. But she's probably had
more influence the world's modern female leaders combined.
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Posted By: Maharbbal
Date Posted: 31-Mar-2006 at 09:08
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Hi, The hell with me I'm a bite lost in my Italian Renaissance history. Althought I vividely remember an history about the mother of Giovanni de'Medici delle Bande Nere (I think she was a Sforza). Anyway, it is said that her archenemy, Cerare Borgia was surrending her castle with powerfull armies holding her sons in hostage an threatening her to kill them in front of her. While the Borgia arrived holding little Giovanni in his arms and a big nasty kniffe in one of his hands, she went to the highest tower of the castle (how dramatic these Italians!!!) and took up her dress under which she was naked and yeld: Son of the pope, why would I care about the fruits while the tree is still alive? Amazed by her courage Cesare ended the siege imediatle and released young Giovanni. Bye. ------------- I am a free donkey! |
Posted By: Maharbbal
Date Posted: 31-Mar-2006 at 09:09
Also the most important women in world history are Morty and Mila. ------------- I am a free donkey! |
Posted By: morticia
Date Posted: 31-Mar-2006 at 13:32
Marhabbal! Thank you for the great compliment! Maybe we're not the most important women in world history, but we are two of the FEW women in AE history!! ------------- "Morty Trust in God: She will provide." -- Emmeline Pankhurst |
Posted By: Ahmed The Fighter
Date Posted: 31-Mar-2006 at 14:23
------------- "May the eyes of cowards never sleep" Khalid Bin Walid 
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 01-Apr-2006 at 14:35
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* Roxalaine (actually known as Hurrem Sultan in Turkish) She was the wife of Suleyman the Magnificent. Many say she was one of the greatest reasons for the Ottoman Empire to start declining... Many historians believe she worked as a "mole" on Suleyman's court because of her letters containing very important information sent to Busbecq(the ammabassador of King Ferdinand of France). But the most important thing she did was to convince Suleyman to drown his most cunning, intelligent, and strongest son Mustafa, as almost all of the European rulers of the period were afraid he was going to ascend to the throne. ------------- |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 01-Apr-2006 at 21:42
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Well...FWIW, in Biography of the Milennium, where they announced the 100 most influential people of the years between 1001 and 2000, Mary Wollstonecraft was the most inluential woman on the list. (Number 53, if I believe...) Second and third place went to Marie Curie and Margaret Sanger, I believe... |
Posted By: Lord Ranulf
Date Posted: 06-Apr-2006 at 14:04
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Mary,the wife of Joseph, the mother of the Christ. Any other great women of history no matter ethnicity and religious background, have always demonstrated in remarkable likeness similar qualities....not entirely of course but in their humanity.
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Posted By: Maharbbal
Date Posted: 12-May-2006 at 00:23
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After much thinking here is my top ten:
1) The "Malicha" the Inacan wife of Cortes and source of tears for her people. 2) The pope Giovanna 3) Margareth Tatcher 4) Olympe de Gouge the french revolutionnary who wrote the woman's rights (in French there is no difference between human and man) and was latter behaded. 5) Doña Juana the Mad the most powerfull and most miserable woman in history betrailed by her father, her husband and her sons. 6) Helois maybe the only female writter really worth reading 7) Irene the Basilea (just to please Kom.) 8) Catherine II czarin of Russia (the only women able not only to be ganged bang by 100 Cossaks but to ask for more). 9) Dalila (the best proof ever of women unfaithfulness) 10) My mother (hey it is my list after all, represents!) Bye. ------------- I am a free donkey! |
Posted By: LeopoldPhilippe
Date Posted: 13-Jul-2015 at 19:54
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Matilda of Flanders, Queen Consort of King William I of England
Blanche of Castile, Queen Consort of King Louis VIII of France and Regent for Louis IX Saint Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist |
Posted By: Mosquito
Date Posted: 16-Jul-2015 at 09:34
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Bona Sforza - queen consort of Sigismundus the Old of Poland. Italian princess that introduced many new things to eastern Europe including new vegetables from the new world.
Saint Jadwiga or Saint Hedvig, the king of Poland (not the queen as it is written in wikipedia). Inspite of the fact that she was a woman she was crowned as "king" . She married the duke of Lithuania creating in this way Polish-Lithuanian alliance what leaded to foundation of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. ------------- "I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman, without a single drop of bad blood, certainly not German blood" - Friedrich Nietzsche |