Amazing Women: 101 Lives to Inspire You

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Amazing Women: 101 Lives to Inspire You

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Flannery O'Connor with Robie Macauley and Arthur Koestler. / Cmacauley, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 3.0 It is never too late to start practising yoga, especially at midlife, when menopause is playing havoc with the body and mind. Psyche Thompson, 53, is a presenter and actress whose credits include Holby City and Silent Witness. A growing influencer on social media— with her YouTube channel amassing thousands of views and followers over the past 12 months— she is on a mission to change perceptions within society and the media about age.

I am proudest of being able to provide opportunities for under-represented young people to achieve their dreams. I’d also like to launch a platform to build a more representative future workforce. Wade also founded Axis, a dance troupe for people with disabilities, and made short films spotlighting different aspects of life with a disability. She died in 2013 at the age of 65 due to complications related to her RA, but she is remembered for using her art to help erase the stigma surrounding disability. “Shame is the big killer of us,” Wade said during a speech in 2010, per The New York Times. “Shame and isolation, not our particular disability.” —OTW 123. Kate Warne Today, we think it’s a given that your family and community shape the person you become. That once-revolutionary concept was defined and popularized by the world-famous anthropologist Margaret Mead. Before graduating from Columbia University, Mead traveled to Samoa in 1925 to investigate a question of human nature: Was adolescence a struggle due to biology, or because of cultural influences? She spent nine months observing Indigenous society and concluded in Coming of Age in Samoa, her bestselling 1928 book, that culture largely determined one’s adolescent experience. The book was a sensation thanks to its frank descriptions of sexuality, and launched Mead into a long career. Just as important as her scientific work, Mead was an outspoken advocate for women’s equality, racial equality, sexual freedom, and the environment. —KL 86. Maryam Mirzakhani Dorothea Lange (L) in 1936 and her photo (R), titled Migrant Mother. / Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain (L), Dorothea Lange, Getty Images (R) I couldn’t live without chai (tea), yoga, my wonderful family and without the possibility of connecting with people. Besides my classes, I present a show on local radio around health and fitness. I love to talk to interesting guests and keep the community informed.Kate says, "In Nosy Crow, we have been able to build an organization from scratch, and being an independent company means that we’re not in thrall to corporate finances. I love being able to do what we think is the right thing.

Won an Amazing Women Award for: Being f ounder of the charity Fresh Start New Beginnings, supporting children who have suffered sexual abuse. Angela Middleton MBE, 58, began weight-training in 2019 and has now entered her first bodybuilding competition. She has also created a bespoke programme, Your Body Means Business , to help others smash their fitness and business goals. I have met many inspirational women who have the courage to stand up for what they believe. I’m in awe of Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, who has shown the power of great leadership. She is an incredible role model.Widely considered one of the great masters of the American short story, Georgia-born writer Flannery O’ Connor managed to write two novels and dozens of now-classic short stories despite a debilitating battle with lupus that eventually killed her when she was just 39. Her tales of violence and mystery in the American South are the foundational texts of the Southern Gothic tradition, exploring racism, religion, poverty, hypocrisy, and more in darkly comic prose. O’Connor’s cultural impact stretches beyond the literary: U2, Bruce Springsteen, and Sufjan Stevens have all cited her as a major influence on their work, as have filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen and numerous modern writers. marks 1,100 years since the death of Aethelflaed, the most powerful woman of the Anglo-Saxon era. A diplomat, warrior, general, scholar and mother, Aethelflaed ruled with remarkable dexterity, tact and fortitude and played a major part in laying the foundation for a united England. Won an Amazing Women Award for: turning her ongoing personal battle against ovarian cancer into a successful charity and annual event. Nassar was sentenced to 60 years in federal prison for his crimes, in addition to hundreds of years for charges at the state level. But in a 2017 piece penned for The Players’ Tribune, Raisman made it clear that punishing Nassar wasn’t enough. “We need to change the systems that embolden sexual abusers,” she wrote. “We must look at the organizations that protected Nassar for years and years: USA Gymnastics, the U.S. Olympic Committee, and Michigan State University. Until we understand the flaws in their systems, we can’t be sure something like this won’t happen again.” Raisman made it her mission to enact change: In March 2018, she filed suit against USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic Committee. “Thousands of young athletes continue to train and compete every day in this same broken system,” Raisman said in a statement. “I refuse to wait any longer for these organizations to do the right thing. It is my hope that the legal process will hold them accountable and enable the change that is so desperately needed.”

Vice President Kamala Harris has gotten closest to the Oval Office, but Victoria Claflin Woodhull tried to make it there almost a century and a half earlier. Before she became the first woman to run for president in 1872, Woodhull divorced her cheating, alcoholic husband and had a successful, eclectic career alongside her sister, Tennessee. Together, they served as Cornelius Vanderbilt’s personal clairvoyants, became the first women to found and run a Wall Street brokerage firm, and established a leftist newspaper, Woodhull and Claflin’s Weekly, which was the first to publish an American English translation of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s Communist Manifesto. She then became the presidential candidate for the Equal Rights Party, running on a liberal platform that supported women’s suffrage, an eight-hour workday, welfare programs, and more. Needless to say, she didn’t win—at 34 years old, she wasn’t really even old enough to run—but her campaign helped clear the path for dozens of female presidential hopefuls who have fought the noble fight since then. —EG 128. Chien-Shiung Wu My other mission is Girls4Tech, which aims to keep girls studying science and technology. Tomorrow’s world will have many jobs in tech industries, so we need girls to keep up their STEM (science, technology, engineering, and maths) subjects." May's many achievements include being the first female president of the global industry association, Design and Art Direction (D&AD).Mary Puthisseril Verghese was just beginning her career in gynecology when she was injured in a car accident and paralyzed. While recovering, she switched medical disciplines and decided to focus on hand surgery, studying at the Christian Medical College, Vellore in her native India. Later, she traveled to Australia and New York to learn about the expanding field of rehabilitative medicine, an essential part of giving patients who have suffered major injuries the chance to regain independence—a journey she knew well. In 1966, Verghese founded the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in Vellore, the first center of its kind in the country, and became India’s first specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation. After her death in 1986, the facility she opened was renamed the Dr. Mary Verghese Institute of Rehabilitation in her honor. —OTW 122. Cheryl Marie Wade

Actor, comedian and writer Meera Syal CBE, 59, has been working with Alzheimer’s Society, the UK’s leading dementia charity, since 2013. My mother is my ‘shero’. We call her ‘The Silent Warrior’. She came to the UK from Sierra Leone and is the quintessential rags to riches story – her power to influence people was astonishing. Crisis works side by side with people experiencing all forms of homelessness, offering education, training and support with housing, employment and health. In 2013, I reached out to the charity to see if I could help and to make sure people know that support is available. Being an ambassador gives me an enormous sense of pride. I was one of the first in the country to become a dementia friend, launching the campaign with my good friend and fellow ambassador, Jo Brand. Ann Cairns, 64, is global chair of The 30% Club , which lobbies to get more women into top corporate jobs. The initial target of 30% has now been achieved in the UK and Ann, who is also executive vice chair at Mastercard, has set her sights further, adding ethnicity targets to the task.I used to believe the problem began with “the suits” at the top, so I would talk to high-level executives about unhelpful labelling and pigeonholing, but women put limitations on themselves too. I’m here to help women question this and change their mindset. Mary Wollstonecraft is the mother of Mary Shelley, writer of Frankenstein. / Culture Club/Getty Images



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