Heroines

This is outside of family to keep some sense of fairness. These are mainly women I admired as a young girl and who helped shape my life. There is no rhyme or reason to this, it’s just an exercise I urge you to try.

Eleanor Roosevelt, for her commitment to human rights
Rosa Parks, you know why
Isadora Duncan and Maria Tallchief, for dance and beauty
Margaret Mead “a small group of thoughtful people could change the world”
Betty Friedan and her cohorts, I sat Betty with my myscegenistic uncle on a 1 1/2 hour ride to the airport and he learned a few things
Florence Nightengale, the lady with the lamp
Jane Goodall, because we watched all her film strips when teachers were actually or mentally absent in class and she was the only female scientist I’d ever seen
Annie Oakley, I had a book about her and thought it was cool that she could shoot
Anne Frank, whose book I read at age eight and have not been the same since.

I thought of heroes, but chose heroines because they’re all but forgotten