March is Women’s History Month so I want to share some of my favorite female role models, inspiring women, with you today. It is hard to really pin down my favorites or those who have made an impact on my life/lives of other females. Sometimes making a list brings out the worst of the perfectionist in me because I always feel like I am excluding someone or missing out, maybe even offending someone. So I am not going to worry about it. I will stick with ten women and that will help me stay on track.
The following women below all have one or more of these qualities: strength, beauty, class, humanitarianism, fights for rights, artistic, pioneers in their field of work, hard working, religious, bravery, a champion, and can serve as a role model.
1) Audrey Hepburn
“The beauty in a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart; the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It’s the caring and that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows and the beauty of a woman only grows with passing years.”
2) Maya Angelou
If you have not noticed from previous entries, especially: https://imageoftheheart.wordpress.com/2014/02/08/when-you-dont-know-what-to-say-let-maya-angelou-do-the-speaking/
3) Loretta Lynn
3) June Carter Cash
Fun fact: June learned to play autoharp by her mother Maybelle Carter. The Carter’s are from VA.
4) Condoleeza Rice
Fun fact: She is the ONLY female who belongs to Augusta. Which is an all male golf club that holds the Masters Tournament.
5) Gloria Steinem
6) Isadora Duncan
7) Pina Bausch
Check out my previous entry on Pina here to learn more about her and see some of her work:
8) Rachel Carson
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.” Silent Spring
9) Michelle Kwan
Who didn’t want to be her in the 90s? I had the necklace and all the books. Kwan was the reason I took up figure skating in elementary school.
10) Oprah Winfrey
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