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capseeboy
Social climber
portland, oregon
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 13, 2018 - 03:30pm PT
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To regard with wonder and delight:
My ex-wife, mother in-law, mom, daughter, grandmother, aunts.
Amelia Earhart
Jane Austin
Marie Curie
Lise Meitner
Josephine Baker
Jane Goodall
Annie Oakley
Margaret Singer
Lucille Ball
Jane Fonda
Carmen Miranda
Cleopatra
Lyn Hill
Goldie Hawn
Janis Joplin
Billie Holiday
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Dec 13, 2018 - 04:39pm PT
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Mary Shelley
Tiny Broadwick
Joan of Arc
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Helen Keller
JK Rowling
Tina Fey
Temple Grandin
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 13, 2018 - 04:55pm PT
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That Girl (Marlo WhatsHerName)
MTM
Murphy Brown
Sister Justine, IHM
Mom
Laurie
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Dec 13, 2018 - 06:13pm PT
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I kinda like my wife.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Dec 13, 2018 - 06:20pm PT
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Mitochondrial Eve...none of us have met her no one would be here without her.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Dec 13, 2018 - 06:40pm PT
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Hypatia. Math
Maryam Mirzakhani Math
Johanna (Still have visions)
Mae West everybody remembers Mae - right
Amelia Earheart
Wilma Rudolph fastest woman of the 1960's
Local heroines
neebee and feralfae
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Jim Clipper
climber
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Dec 13, 2018 - 07:05pm PT
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ha! donini appreciating the mitochondria. where have i seen that before...
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Dec 13, 2018 - 07:11pm PT
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 13, 2018 - 09:57pm PT
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hey there, say...
i have a few, but, for now...
since so many are listed...
i would add her... i read of some of what she did,
for children in africa, as to food...
if that is really so, which it seems to be...
good for her... ??
audry hepburn...
harriet tubman...
and, sadly, i do not know who she is...
she was a mom, during a mudslide, after an earthquake in
(either mexico, or south america-- too long to remember back) ...
and, as she sunk into a deep hole of mud, she held her baby up
for someone to grab and save its life, but, she sunk too far
under and died, in the process... :(
knowing at least, that her baby was alive... and, hopefully
in good hands... :(
edit:
awwwww, say, thebravecowboy... as to your quote:
awww, how sweet, :)
Dec 13, 2018 - 06:13pm PT
I kinda like my wife.
*still got that one other painting for you...
just had to give much time to the older lady friend, that
needs by help, ... i AM getting there, though... :)
did not forget... :)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 13, 2018 - 11:04pm PT
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No love for Mother donini?
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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Dec 14, 2018 - 04:52am PT
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A few more mathematicians to add to zBrown's mentions:
Sophie Germain (An amazing story of the passionate amateur).
Sofia Kovalevskaya
Emmy Noether
The Wiki articles on these people resonate with the difficulties they faced as women trying to participate in an activity defined as "a man's world". In any case, assistance from supportive males was an important factor in their success.
For hard, local climbers we have the "all-arounder" (alpine, sport, trad, boulder) known as "La Hormiga":
https://www.thenorthface.com.ar/blog/3244/cintiapercivati
Here she is climbing on some local, Balcarce rock (is that some "toxic masculinity" we see creeping into the video?):
[Click to View YouTube Video]
The top-three academics in the junior class at my daughter's high school, at an end-of-the-year school ceremony last Wednesday (it's not an all-girls school!):
Posing with their moms:
It would be impossible to make a complete list of women I admire
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Dec 14, 2018 - 06:48am PT
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Mouse, my mother was the one who told me to pay homage to Mitochondrial Eve. She also told me that while the Eve story in the Old Testament was a silly fable it did make the valid point concerning the gullibility of men when their thinking is clouded by that organ directly below their belt buckle.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Dec 14, 2018 - 06:50am PT
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Ellen Wilts, I'm honored to have met her. She lived a life.
Barbara Lilley: She's my hero.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Dec 14, 2018 - 06:51am PT
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Hey Neebee, thanks for thinking of me, and I am glad that you caught the tongue-in-cheek tone of my comment. Don't rush to get that painting completed: this is such a busy time of year and so many folks just need basic love and human caring whereas A painting is just icing on my cake. Cheers!
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Dec 14, 2018 - 07:32am PT
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let’s see...
my wife and so many others in my family.
Great thread 👍 !!
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10b4me
Social climber
Lida Junction
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Dec 14, 2018 - 08:00am PT
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Amelia Earhart
Diane Fossey
Marie Curie
Jane Goodall
Rosa Parks
Jane Fonda
Indira Gandhi
Cleopatra
Georgia Okeefe
Michelle Obama
Melinda Pennoyer
Benazir Bhutto
Many women in the environmental movement.
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capseeboy
Social climber
portland, oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 14, 2018 - 08:15am PT
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Wiki: I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides, it furnished me seven times the pleasure afforded me by any of the others; twelve years of preparation, and two years of writing. The others needed no preparation and got none.
— Mark Twain
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 14, 2018 - 08:23am PT
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George Bernard Shaw's classic play about Saint Joan of Arc was first performed in 1923 in New York and is considered one of his greatest achievements. Due in large part to the theatrical success of Saint Joan, Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1925.
I admired the woman who taught the course on "Drama as Literature" at Monterey Peninsula College.
We students drove to SF to watch it performed at the A.C.T.
It was magnificent. The instructor, whose name is erased from my mem, got through to me.
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ecdh
climber
the east
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Dec 14, 2018 - 04:36pm PT
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Malala yousefi
Nancy wake
Imoto
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 14, 2018 - 04:53pm PT
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Maria Gaetana Agnesi (Italian pronunciation: [maˈriːa ɡaeˈtaːna aɲˈɲeːzi; -ɛːzi];[1] 16 May 1718 – 9 January 1799) was an Italian mathematician, philosopher, theologian, and humanitarian. She was the first woman to write a mathematics handbook and the first woman appointed as a mathematics professor at a university.[2]
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Dec 14, 2018 - 06:27pm PT
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All the lists above pretty much say it. I'd add blues singer Barbara Dane, and delete Jane Fonda, but that's just me.
But as it happens, I kind of have a crush on my wife...
We went up to Spokane a few months ago as she was competing in the USA Power Lifting Association Nationals. She busted three national records in her class. Bench, deadlift, and total. The bench record cut down through two age groups below her. Gotta be a wake up call for the 40 year olds in the 155/160 weight class.
How many 62 year old women do you know who bench press 207, dead lift 335, and squat 248? My strategy for safety? I can outrun her :-)
PS "RAW" means no assisting outer wear other than a belt.
PS #2 I was up front. The place was packed.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Dec 14, 2018 - 06:29pm PT
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during my EMT days in red lodge montana,
we got dispatched to the scene of a lightning strike at a lake not very far out of town.
there was handicap access which on this occasion was attended by a boy scout group including the son
of our ambulance administrator/trainer who was behind the wheel as we rolled, lights and sirens.
there was a metal hand rail on the shoreline and our information indicated multiple casualties.
it was pedal to the metal up a steady grade in a diesel rig to the lake and while en route
an oncoming vehicle issued an ambiguous headlight signal. as it carried on by, laying on
some stuff in the bed of the pickup, under a crouching adult, we recognized her son.
one slight drop in RPM on the tach, an instant maybe two, of maternal instinct,
a moment in the mirror, and then a profound resumption of throttle and duty.
we were knee deep in it up by the railings. notably, it all went
as smooth and professionally as it should have, but damn!
skipping ahead: the kid made a good recovery. at least near term, reason to be hopeful.
i guess i never heard about the kids we transported to billings. sad, but not unusual
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Dec 14, 2018 - 06:57pm PT
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^^^
One hell of a situation.
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Aeriq
Sport climber
100-year Visitor
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Dec 14, 2018 - 07:02pm PT
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Such a stoopid thread to have to name only a few.
Go ahead and post your favorites - the list will never be complete.
You boxed your male ass in with the thread title.
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Gene
climber
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Dec 14, 2018 - 07:08pm PT
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My two daughters.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 14, 2018 - 07:17pm PT
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hey there say, ... thank... thebravecowboy... will do... :)
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Dec 15, 2018 - 12:04am PT
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Two Ns in Lynn
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perswig
climber
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Dec 15, 2018 - 06:31am PT
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But as it happens, I kind of have a crush on my wife...
How many 62 year old women do you know who bench press 207, dead lift 335, and squat 248?
Out-fukin-standing and badass, Kris.
Dale
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MikeL
Social climber
Southern Arizona
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Dec 15, 2018 - 08:03am PT
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Shakti.
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ecdh
climber
the east
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Dec 15, 2018 - 06:08pm PT
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Laurie Anderson for sure.
Gerlindhe Kaltenbrummer. No O, k2 north side, and still worked a day job as a nurse.
In fact all nurses, especially the one I married. 12 years in ER, damn superhero.
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Jim Clipper
climber
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Dec 15, 2018 - 07:50pm PT
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Someone say Rachel Carson? Low T? Yeah, thanks, maybe it's the organochlories.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Dec 16, 2018 - 03:28am PT
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Way, way too many to list here so I'll leave it at my wife, Ada Lovelace, and Silvia Vidal.
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capseeboy
Social climber
portland, oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 17, 2018 - 12:42pm PT
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-Helen Keller
-Anne Sullivan
-Emilie du Chatelet
-Catherine Destivelle
My grandmother, mother of six girls and one boy, devout Catholic. At around age 85 said, " I don't think it matters too much what people believe, as long as their nice."
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Dec 17, 2018 - 01:21pm PT
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" I don't think it matters too much what people believe, as long as their nice."
That just about says it all.
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Dec 22, 2018 - 02:42pm PT
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Lois, cuz she could take a lickin' and keep on tickin'...
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Dec 22, 2018 - 06:27pm PT
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Leslie Feist,for sure.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
She plays all the instruments.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Dec 22, 2018 - 06:50pm PT
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Beryl Smeeton
One of my all time heroes!
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