Every March I post one blog per day on notable women and their amazing accomplishments. Come join me to learn about women in science, women inventors, politicians and poets, freedom fighters and artists.
Many of these women have been buried in history, their stories ignored or never told…..meet amazing people whose voices have been silenced, but who are finally being given the credit they deserve!
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Diane Tegarden
Posted in Quotable Women, women adventurers, Women artists, women engineers, women freedom fighters, women in astronomy, women in finance, women in medicine, women in politics, women in religion, women in science, women in the military, women inventors, women musicians, women pilots, women poets, women world leaders, women writers, Women's History
Tagged 31 Days of Notable Women, Diane Tegarden, women in politics, women in science, women inventors, women poets, women writers, Womens History Month
As many of you may know, during Women’s History month in March I blog every day about amazing but unheralded women who are inventors, artists, writers, political leaders, scientists, pilots, world leaders, doctors, astronomers and authors. These are women who have made history but not gotten the acclaim they deserve. I call the blog “31 Days of Notable Women”.
Here’s your chance to be glorified! If you are (or know of) a woman whose time has come, please email me at rosefirewalker@aol.com so I can give you the attention you so justly deserve. I’ll need time to research and write your short bio, so let’s get the ball rolling.
Looking forward to getting to know some of you amazing women,
Diane Tegarden
Posted in Nobel Prize Winners, Quotable Women, women adventurers, Women artists, women engineers, women freedom fighters, women in astronomy, women in finance, women in medicine, women in politics, women in religion, women in science, women in the military, women inventors, women pilots, women world leaders, women writers, Women's History, womens issues
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Ellen MacArthur
“This will make her officially the fastest person ever to circumnavigate the world under sail: let alone single-handed, female and 5ft 2in, in charge of a thundering, crashing, unforgiving, dangerous 75ft trimaran. If the winds hold, this extraordinary person will have broken the record set by Francis Joyon last year: 28,000 miles in just over ten weeks.
When you consider that Joyon himself knocked 20 days off the previous record, the dazzle of MacArthur’s achievement intensifies. She has had, it is true, lavish funding and weather routing advice that Joyon did not have. But all the same, one can only gulp. Most of us, confronted with the vicious motion of a trimaran in a rough sea, would search for ways to slow the damn thing down. MacArthur has been concentrating night and day for ten weeks on making it go faster. She deserves every cheer she gets.
I wish I could think of this moment as another kind of breakthrough: a spit in the eye of the over-regulated, handrail culture which threatens to stifle the rest of us. Adventurers on sea and land — MacArthur, Goss, Fiennes, Bonington — certainly cheer us up. I love the story that one tells, of a letter saying ‘you have inspired me to action. After two years, I am finally going to get that lawn mower mended’. But the truth is that these fearless people are an aristocracy of adventure, a tiny minority who assert their human right to push their limits and risk their lives. Meanwhile the rest of us sink ever deeper into a fearful, torpid, timid, risk-averse culture which causes incalculable harm to health, education, mental balance, the spirit of enterprise, even the economy.”
Libby Purves. “Op/Ed: Britain, land of the timid,” [Ellen MacArthur is one of a rare aristocracy of the brave in our risk-averse, safety-first society.] The Times Online (February 8, 2005).
Posted in famous firsts, women adventurers, Women's History
Tagged Ellen MacArthur, famous firsts, Francis Joyon, trimaran, woman sailor
