Voices of Powerful Women by Zoe Sallis

Author:Zoe Sallis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Watkins Media

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WHICH WOMAN OR WOMEN, PAST OR PRESENT, DO YOU MOST ADMIRE?

Judi Dench

I admired Peggy Ashcroft very much indeed. So many things happened to her during her life, and her vulnerability, resilience and spirit were just wonderful. And I admire Marjorie Wallace. I admire people who go out on a limb, to pursue a dream that they have. Most of these are men, but I do admire lots of women.

Ann Leslie

I admired Mrs Thatcher enormously. As a woman she was automatically an outsider in the masculine world of British politics – and especially in the Tory party – so she thought outside the conventions of the male club. In the end, she terrified the men who’d initially patronized her. In history, one of my favourite women role models is the 19th-century explorer Mary Kingsley. In Africa she lived with cannibal tribes and endured – with great humour – enormous travails and dangers. It’s amazing. She always dressed as if she was at a Victorian tea party in a big skirt and buttoned-up blouse, with boots and a parasol. She became a huge celebrity in Victorian Britain and published one of the funniest and most moving books I have ever read: Travels in West Africa. She went to South Africa to become a nurse during the Boer War and died from disease relatively young. Her courage, her humour and her refusal to let gender or convention stand in her way are terrifically inspiring.

Marion Cotillard

I discovered Aung San Suu Kyi when my mother took me to see John Boorman’s movie Beyond Rangoon. I was 19 and knew nothing of Burma, but from that day on she has been my hero. Another is Mariane Pearl, an amazingly beautiful soul. And Shirin Ebadi. I read her very interesting book Iran Awakening some years ago, and it tells us a lot about the world and how politics and manipulation work.

Sinéad O’Connor

My biggest female hero would be Harriet Tubman – the tiny, ordinary, granny kind of woman who organized and ran the secret escape route nicknamed the “Underground Railroad”, for smuggling slaves from the south of America into the north just before the American Civil War. By finding people who would give them help and shelter along the way, she managed to rescue hundreds of families and people from slavery. I guess my next biggest hero would be Joan of Arc. I admire her for the female warrior force that she was.

“I admire people who go out on a limb, to pursue a dream that they have.”

JUDI DENCH

Kate Clinton

One of the lovely things about living in New York City is that you really get to meet people that you admire. I admire Gloria Steinem, I think she is really an American saint, though she would kill me for saying this about her. She once mentioned about that draconian Supreme Court decision that basically continues to support the ban on late term partial birth abortion, and which just continues the chipping away at every woman’s right to choose.

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