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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I want to hear about the women who you truly admire. Personally or from afar, or even both.

Today I'm reading about influential women throughout history. Is there anyone who stands out for you?

For me, personally, it's my Mum. She's an absolute boss. Beautiful, creative, selfless, funny and is genuinely my best friend. Hugely brave when faced with the prospect of dying from a very rare sarcoma, she'll never be in remission, but she's doing incredibly well.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I like the women who meet me. Clearly they have both intelligence and taste.

I am also inspired by women who make a stand not by shouting but by leading by example. Those with a can do attitude. I work with so many young people, mainly in an engineering function, the girls and women are totally inspiring.

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over a year ago

Nettie Stevens (American Geneticist) 1861-1912

Nettie Stevens discovered that the sex of an organism is determined by its X and Y chromosomes – disproving hundreds of years of men blaming women for not giving them a 'male heir'.

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By *ink Panther.Woman
over a year ago

Preston

Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "do one thing every day that scares you", many women over the years have truly embraced that challenge! The ones who stand out for me are Rosa Parks and Mary Wollstonecraft, shining examples to us all.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Sufragettes

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By *ack Seat LoverTV/TS
over a year ago

Woking

Whatever your political views or geographical location (and this isn't a debate) but what Margaret Thatcher achieved and carried out was truly inspirational

“Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My daughters, both my girls are turning into beautiful young women with lovely persnalitys. They are both doing very well in school and they have high aspirations for good solid careers. I'm very proud of them both.

PTU XXX

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By *ackDMissMorganCouple
over a year ago

Halifax

Maya Angelou for me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

theres four now, one more and you can go for womens week

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Women have had far more impact on my life than men have so I am very happy to celebrate their achievements and stand for better rights.

Being interested in all things sport there are several inspirations there.

Hannah Cockcroft and Dame Sarah Storey

Jo Pavey and Dame Helen Grainger

Chrissie Wellington

All with the incredible dedication required to be the best they can and also to compete on the international stage (and win regularly). Often while juggling families. Jo, for example, set up a treadmill at home so that she could get training sessions in while her baby was having a nap.

Closer to home is my Nanna who told me at a very early age to get out of the town I grew up in as there would be nothing there for me. It was advice I took to heart and I feel was very very useful.

Also my first manager when I started work after uni. She gave me the confidence to trust in myself when I was still a relative noob in the world of tax.

And of course my monkey amazes and frustrates me on a daily basis. At this point in her life, male/female discriminations and issues are completely alien and she just gets on with 'people'. I'm hoping she can hold on to that for as long as possible as things hopefully improve in the wider world.

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

Mary Wollstonecraft and Maya Angelou. And my grandmother for a few reasons to do with education, her determination and her love for all. I hope to one day help as many as she has.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "do one thing every day that scares you", many women over the years have truly embraced that challenge! The ones who stand out for me are Rosa Parks and Mary Wollstonecraft, shining examples to us all.

I've briefly read about Eleanor Roosevelt, but would love to read one of the books she wrote during her First Lady days!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was brought up as part of a single parent family. It's only as an adult that I understood the sacrifices that my Mum made to ensure I had a safe, secure, loving and happy childhood - definitely an inspiration and just the most amazing woman!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Mary McLeod Bethune (American Educator & Civil Rights Activist) 1875-1955

Mary McLeod Bethune was a tremendous educator and civil rights activist. She founded private schools for African-American children when they were denied educations elsewhere, helped found the National Association of Colored Women, and founded the National Council of Negro Women (and participated in most of the national groups for African-Americans), and served as an advisor to FDR.

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over a year ago

My Nan.

She is a modern day saint.

She is coming up to 70 but she can't bring herself to retire from her work in social services because she won't leave the families that rely on her.

She has fostered many, many children whilst she ensures they are reunited with their families after help has been given.

She rescued me. From a life of pain, drugs and abuse.

She tried to help my mother be a better parent, she was beyond saving but she gave her whole being to try and help.

She took me in.

She now plays the role of grandparents to our kiddies and she loves it, she makes sure that our children will never feel the loss of not having my parents.

She regularly brings home bags of other people's washing to help give them a break.

She will give you her last penny and smile about it.

She's everything I want to be and if I have just a sliver of her humanity and wisdom then I'll be so freaking happy.

Eve. X

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"My daughters, both my girls are turning into beautiful young women with lovely persnalitys. They are both doing very well in school and they have high aspirations for good solid careers. I'm very proud of them both.

PTU XXX "

This is ace, PTU! I can only imagine how hard it is bringing up girls and setting them on the right path!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Mary Wollstonecraft and Maya Angelou. And my grandmother for a few reasons to do with education, her determination and her love for all. I hope to one day help as many as she has."

Mary Wollstonecraft & Maya Angelou were both incredible women. Good call, Meli!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"My Nan.

She is a modern day saint.

She is coming up to 70 but she can't bring herself to retire from her work in social services because she won't leave the families that rely on her.

She has fostered many, many children whilst she ensures they are reunited with their families after help has been given.

She rescued me. From a life of pain, drugs and abuse.

She tried to help my mother be a better parent, she was beyond saving but she gave her whole being to try and help.

She took me in.

She now plays the role of grandparents to our kiddies and she loves it, she makes sure that our children will never feel the loss of not having my parents.

She regularly brings home bags of other people's washing to help give them a break.

She will give you her last penny and smile about it.

She's everything I want to be and if I have just a sliver of her humanity and wisdom then I'll be so freaking happy.

Eve. X"

That's beautiful, Eve!

Your Nan sounds like an amazing, awe-inspiring lady!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I was brought up as part of a single parent family. It's only as an adult that I understood the sacrifices that my Mum made to ensure I had a safe, secure, loving and happy childhood - definitely an inspiration and just the most amazing woman! "

Dan, I'm totally with you on that. We're very lucky to have such amazing Mums!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Women have had far more impact on my life than men have so I am very happy to celebrate their achievements and stand for better rights.

Being interested in all things sport there are several inspirations there.

Hannah Cockcroft and Dame Sarah Storey

Jo Pavey and Dame Helen Grainger

Chrissie Wellington

Closer to home is my Nanna who told me at a very early age to get out of the town I grew up in as there would be nothing there for me. It was advice I took to heart and I feel was very very useful.

Also my first manager when I started work after uni. She gave me the confidence to trust in myself when I was still a relative noob in the world of tax.

I'm in awe of athletes and sports people anyway, let alone the women and what they give up and go through to truly achieve their goals! Good shout!

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By *tephTV67TV/TS
over a year ago

Cheshire

Eve's Nan now ...also

Harper Lee, the last paragraph of her book always makes me cry.

Rosa Parks for standing up or in her case, stay sitting down for her rights.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My mum - The most solid, dependable and resolute woman I know. Shaped me and my siblings into the adults we are all whilst working all the hours god sent. I was so proud when the hard work was recognised in the 00s and she was on the queens honours list

As well as mum, the Suffragettes, Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott-King and Harriet Tubman are all women who stand out for me with regards to their determination, desire and selflessness.

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By *oward1978Man
over a year ago

Rotherham

Elizabeth Cady Stanton. A woman way ahead of her time, and thankfully so. Her "Destructive Male" speech I could read all day. Beautiful writing and powerful rhetoric, sadly some of it still relevant today. It's hard to believe she gave that speech in 1868.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

PTU XXX

This is ace, PTU! I can only imagine how hard it is bringing up girls and setting them on the right path!

Thank you. I always try to be honest with my girls about everything. I tell them about all the good things I've done in my life but also all the bad things I've done in my life so that hopefully they have a balanced out look. I was brought up in a very strict and sheltered family and I think that hindered me in some ways. Actually someone said something to me yesterday about my mother that made me see things a little differently. I believe that we should never stop learning and evolving. The moment that happens is the moment we will stop moving forward as honest and stable humans.

PTU xxx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mother teresa deserves her recognition, a selfless person ,ok in the name of religion but still a devoted lady to her cause

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Every time i see or hear International Womens Day I can't help but think if THAT scene from Deadpool lol

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over a year ago

Harriet Quimby (Female Aviator & Screenwriter) 1875-1912

Harriet Quimby is classified among the most famous American female aviators. Her career as a pilot did not last long but was undeniably heroic. She was the first American lady to become a licensed pilot and the first woman to fly across the English Channel. She was also a movie screenwriter. Even though she died very young, Harriet played a key influence upon the role of women in aviation.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Aung San Suu Kyi

It is not power that corrupts, but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

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Ada Countess of Lovelace (1815 - 1852)

Worked on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine and is widely recognised as the first computer programmer.

The only legitimate daughter of Lord Byron. She learned from the likes of Michael Faraday and Charles Dickens before working with 'the Father of computers'

She died at just 36

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By *ild-1Woman
over a year ago

york

My gran. She was presented the mbe in recognition of her charity work. She was selfless and the most amazing lady.

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

My Nan and my Mum, like many other millions of women they worked themselves to the point of exhaustion to raise families in hard times but throughout never moaned about their lot and were always positive and encouraging in what their children could achieve..

and saying that has sort of made my eyes dusty..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Florence Nightingale. She needs no introductions.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"My Nan.

She is a modern day saint.

She is coming up to 70 but she can't bring herself to retire from her work in social services because she won't leave the families that rely on her.

She has fostered many, many children whilst she ensures they are reunited with their families after help has been given.

She rescued me. From a life of pain, drugs and abuse.

She tried to help my mother be a better parent, she was beyond saving but she gave her whole being to try and help.

She took me in.

She now plays the role of grandparents to our kiddies and she loves it, she makes sure that our children will never feel the loss of not having my parents.

She regularly brings home bags of other people's washing to help give them a break.

She will give you her last penny and smile about it.

She's everything I want to be and if I have just a sliver of her humanity and wisdom then I'll be so freaking happy.

Eve. X

That's beautiful, Eve!

Your Nan sounds like an amazing, awe-inspiring lady!

She really is, the world needs more women like her and I hope I can do her proud.

Thanks doll.

Eve. X

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Eve's Nan now ...also

Harper Lee, the last paragraph of her book always makes me cry.

Rosa Parks for standing up or in her case, stay sitting down for her rights.

Ha ha aww that's lovely!

Thanks you. Xx

Eve. Xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I recommend you all watch Hidden Figures - such inspiring women

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Elizabeth Cady Stanton. A woman way ahead of her time, and thankfully so. Her "Destructive Male" speech I could read all day. Beautiful writing and powerful rhetoric, sadly some of it still relevant today. It's hard to believe she gave that speech in 1868."

Thanks Howi. I've just read and I'm posting it here for all to read

I urge a sixteenth amendment, because 'manhood suffrage,' or a man's government, is civil, religious, and social disorganization. The male element is a destructive force, stern, selfish, aggrandizing, loving war, violence, conquest, acquisition, breeding in the material and moral world alike discord, disorder, disease, and death. See what a record of blood and cruelty the pages of history reveal! Through what slavery, slaughter, and sacrifice, through what inquisitions and imprisonments, pains and persecutions, black codes and gloomy creeds, the soul of humanity has struggled for the centuries, while mercy has veiled her face and all hearts have been dead alike to love and hope!

The male element has held high carnival thus far; it has fairly run riot from the beginning, overpowering the feminine element everywhere, crushing out all the diviner qualities in human nature, until we know but little of true manhood and womanhood, of the latter comparatively nothing, for it has scarce been recognized as a power until within the last century. Society is but the reflection of man himself, untempered by woman's thought; the hard iron rule we feel alike in the church, the state, and the home. No one need wonder at the disorganization, at the fragmentary condition of everything, when we remember that man, who represents but half a complete being, with but half an idea on every subject, has undertaken the absolute control of all sublunary matters.

People object to the demands of those whom they choose to call the strong-minded, because they say 'the right of suffrage will make the women masculine.' That is just the difficulty in which we are involved today. Though disfranchised, we have few women in the best sense; we have simply so many reflections, varieties, and dilutions of the masculine gender. The strong, natural characteristics of womanhood are repressed and ignored in dependence, for so long as man feeds woman she will try to please the giver and adapt herself to his condition. To keep a foothold in society, woman must be as near like man as possible, reflect his ideas, opinions, virtues, motives, prejudices, and vices. She must respect his statutes, though they strip her of every inalienable right, and conflict with that higher law written by the finger of God on her own soul.

She must look at everything from its dollar-and-cent point of view, or she is a mere romancer. She must accept things as they are and make the best of them. To mourn over the miseries of others, the poverty of the poor, their hardships in jails, prisons, asylums, the horrors of war, cruelty, and brutality in every form, all this would be mere sentimentalizing. To protest against the intrigue, bribery, and corruption of public life, to desire that her sons might follow some business that did not involve lying, cheating, and a hard, grinding selfishness, would be arrant nonsense.

In this way man has been molding woman to his ideas by direct and positive influences, while she, if not a negation, has used indirect means to control him, and in most cases developed the very characteristics both in him and herself that needed repression. And now man himself stands appalled at the results of his own excesses, and mourns in bitterness that falsehood, selfishness, and violence are the law of life. The need of this hour is not territory, gold mines, railroads, or specie payments but a new evangel of womanhood, to exalt purity, virtue, morality, true religion, to lift man up into the higher realms of thought and action.

We ask woman's enfranchisement, as the first step toward the recognition of that essential element in government that can only secure the health, strength, and prosperity of the nation. Whatever is done to lift woman to her true position will help to usher in a new day of peace and perfection for the race.

In speaking of the masculine element, I do not wish to be understood to say that all men are hard, selfish, and brutal, for many of the most beautiful spirits the world has known have been clothed with manhood; but I refer to those characteristics, though often marked in woman, that distinguish what is called the stronger sex. For example, the love of acquisition and conquest, the very pioneers of civilization, when expended on the earth, the sea, the elements, the riches and forces of nature, are powers of destruction when used to subjugate one man to another or to sacrifice nations to ambition.

Here that great conservator of woman's love, if permitted to assert itself, as it naturally would in freedom against oppression, violence, and war, would hold all these destructive forces in check, for woman knows the cost of life better than man does, and not with her consent would one drop of blood ever be shed, one life sacrificed in vain.

With violence and disturbance in the natural world, we see a constant effort to maintain an equilibrium of forces. Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony, and beauty may reign supreme. There is a striking analogy between matter and mind, and the present disorganization of society warns us that in the dethronement of woman we have let loose the elements of violence and ruin that she only has the power to curb. If the civilization of the age calls for an extension of the suffrage, surely a government of the most virtuous educated men and women would better represent the whole and protect the interests of all than could the representation of either sex alone.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton - 1868

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Such a nice thread to read through

Good work OP

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By *a Fee VerteWoman
over a year ago

Limbo

I really admire the Danish aid worker Anja Ringgren Loven who runs a home in Nigeria dedicated to giving abandoned, abused and orphaned children the chance of a near normal upbringing and education. You may have heard of her from the news story which ran last year when she rescued a starving toddler from the street, a so-called 'witch child' she later named Hope.

I follow her on Facebook and Instagram and though she sometimes posts heartbreaking stuff, her positivity, endless hard work, the joy these children now experience from being treated normally and the love she and her colleagues feel for them is what really jumps off the page.

In a sea of need, what she does is 'small' yet she selflessly gives her all which is all that can ever be asked of anyone - and much more than most of us do. I think she's remarkable.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Along with many others on this thread, my mum. She struggled for many years to raise me & my brother on her own and battled with her demons and drink whilst doing so & yet never letting us go without. She managed to beat the drink for the last 4 years of her life before she passed at the far too young age of 59. She was my best friend and I miss her incredibly still 9 years on. Through her life she taught me about the kind of woman I strive to be

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By *ugby 123Couple
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over a year ago

O o O oo

Eves nan

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I recommend you all watch Hidden Figures - such inspiring women "

Yes! This is on the watch list!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Along with many others on this thread, my mum. She struggled for many years to raise me & my brother on her own and battled with her demons and drink whilst doing so & yet never letting us go without. She managed to beat the drink for the last 4 years of her life before she passed at the far too young age of 59. She was my best friend and I miss her incredibly still 9 years on. Through her life she taught me about the kind of woman I strive to be

Beautiful Minxy

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"My gran. She was presented the mbe in recognition of her charity work. She was selfless and the most amazing lady. "

That is so cool, you must be incredibly proud!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"My mum - The most solid, dependable and resolute woman I know. Shaped me and my siblings into the adults we are all whilst working all the hours god sent. I was so proud when the hard work was recognised in the 00s and she was on the queens honours list

As well as mum, the Suffragettes, Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott-King and Harriet Tubman are all women who stand out for me with regards to their determination, desire and selflessness."

This is amazing! Can you tell us what she was recognised for without giving too much of yourself away!?

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over a year ago

Ruth Ellis (1899-2000)

Ruth Ellis was the oldest-known "open" lesbian when she died at the ripe old age of 100. She came out when she was just 16, graduated high school in spite of considerable adversity, and set up a successful printing business. She met her partner of 30 years, Ceciline, in the 1920s, and their Detroit home became a welcome refuge for African-American gays and lesbians.

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By *tephTV67TV/TS
over a year ago

Cheshire

"I recommend you all watch Hidden Figures - such inspiring women

Yes! This is on the watch list! "

Seen it well worth a watch

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh and my mum definitely inspires me .

Single mum of three children at the age of 26 with no home due to domestic violence . She struggled through and we never went without . When we were old enough that she could go back to work she did an evening college course to learn computers and worked her way up and she is now a payroll and accounts manager . From struggling to pay for a week away in a caravan when we were kids (which we loved by the way) last year she paid for me , my siblings and their partners and their kids to go to Disneyworld just because she wanted to treat us . She is the most selfless woman I've ever known

Mrs

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By *tephTV67TV/TS
over a year ago

Cheshire

"Ruth Ellis (1899-2000)

When you first put the name up I thought of the last woman hanged !

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By *tephTV67TV/TS
over a year ago

Cheshire

Also just gone through my Twitter feed, plenty of Men moaning about no international Men's Day ...Richard Herring correcting each and everyone it's on November 19th

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Also just gone through my Twitter feed, plenty of Men moaning about no international Men's Day ...Richard Herring correcting each and everyone it's on November 19th

Yes, unfortunately, some just aren't going to understand the relevance of today...

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Yazidi girls and women...for having survived the onslaught of the cowardly scum from the Islamic State.

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This thread is too good to drop off page 1 yet. I'll be disappointed if it doesn't get to 175.

I'm going to change names in this post, can never be too careful. I think you'll see why.

Someone else that inspires me is Jane. I work with Jane. She has been at the place I work since I started there.

When I started though, Jane was Jon. Jon was a cheerful nerd that I would share Star Trek jokes with and seemed a very happy person enjoying their work.

Under the surface though Jon really wasn't happy. Jon didn't want to be Jon. I don't think anyone knew this.

One morning I came in to work and found an all staff email from the MD. Jon was now going to be called Jane. Would use the ladies loos, be referred to as she etc. 'I know that you will all be supportive in this life changing time'

Without any noticeable change in the office, everyone pretty much just accepted it and carried on.

Jane has been through surgery and various treatments. She still seems the happy nerd that I can share Star Trek jokes with.

She has a YouTube channel doing 'unboxing' videos and tech product reviews. The comments she gets on there would be enough to make anyone curl up in a ball and cry but she keeps doing it to show them that they aren't going to win.

She told me I was brave to bring a new life into the world. It was so easy to send back that she had almost done the same thing by making the decision to have the life she wanted.

I'm going to hit 'post' now. Seem to have some dust in my eye.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"This thread is too good to drop off page 1 yet. I'll be disappointed if it doesn't get to 175.

I'm going to change names in this post, can never be too careful. I think you'll see why.

Someone else that inspires me is Jane. I work with Jane. She has been at the place I work since I started there.

When I started though, Jane was Jon. Jon was a cheerful nerd that I would share Star Trek jokes with and seemed a very happy person enjoying their work.

Under the surface though Jon really wasn't happy. Jon didn't want to be Jon. I don't think anyone knew this.

Without any noticeable change in the office, everyone pretty much just accepted it and carried on.

Jane has been through surgery and various treatments. She still seems the happy nerd that I can share Star Trek jokes with.

She told me I was brave to bring a new life into the world. It was so easy to send back that she had almost done the same thing by making the decision to have the life she wanted.

I'm going to hit 'post' now. Seem to have some dust in my eye. "

That's amazing and I'm sure having supportive people like you makes it a little easier

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over a year ago

Dorothy Hodgkin (British chemist) 1910-1994

Hodgkin was awarded the Nobel prize for her work on critical discoveries of the structure of both penicillin and later insulin. These discoveries led to significant improvements in health care. An outstanding chemist, Dorothy also devoted a large section of her life to the peace movement and promoting nuclear disarmament.