Lustre’s Top Twelve Iconic Women
By Erica and Karen
W
e owe so many women so much. We can’t possible name them all, but we can name some of them. Here are twelve favorites.
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Christiane Amanpour. For elegantly interviewing dictators in the best accent ever.
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Margaret Atwood. For being brave and funny as she warns us about history repeating itself.
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Mary Barra. For proving a woman can make in Detroit.
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Viola Davis. For finding the force in her characters, and using it.
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus. For making quirky sexy.
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Gloria Estefan. For bridging cultures and making us dance.
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Billie Jean King. For beating Bobby Riggs.
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Rita Moreno. For starring twice in the same movie while becoming older in technicolor.
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Dolly Parton. For being a brilliant blond with a huge voice, an eloquent pen and a style all her own.
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Sheryl Sandberg. For being a powerful woman in Silicon Valley who still works to advance women.
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Lesley Stahl. For her intrepid fifty year career.
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Diane von Furstenberg. For the wrap dress that helped us unlock our careers.
No Rosa Parks? No Golda Meir? No Bette Davis? No Florence Nightingale? And what of Irma Rombauer, whose "Joy of Cooking" launched many a newly-wed’s kitchen?
I may admire accomplished women in Hollywood or Silicon Valley but the women I "owe" so much made a home for me and instilled the values of hard work and honesty.
A few on my top 10 list
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Queen Elizabeth
Jane Goodall.
A few on my top 10 list
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Queen Elizabeth
Jane Goodall.
A few on my top 10 list
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Queen Elizabeth
Jane Goodall.
A few on my top 10 list
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Queen Elizabeth
Jane Goodall.
A few on my top 10 list
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Queen Elizabeth
Jane Goodall.
1 sentence for each? Really. No bio attached. Nothing. What kind of online emptiness is this? Ready to unsubscribe. This is the level of 3rd grade. Sorry.
This is a good list of women in whose footsteps I grew up – agree with another commenter that RBG should be on here, and with another that you didn’t say enough. In particular, Billy Jean King is not about beating Rigg, but about her fight for pay equality and promoting fellow female athletes, and Dolly Parton’s quiet charity (so well placed) is what really defines the depth of her humanity
Please add to your list with Michelle Obama and Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier, the scientists who the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020 for inventing the gene editing tool CRISPR.
Gloria Steinem for heaven sakes!
You can’t please everyone, I know. I love the list and the quirky sentence for each name. Just a comment on our culture, I guess, that the majority of the names here are entertainers in one form or another – rather than creators. Just shows what "we" value most.
12 “favorites”? Might be more interesting to post a list of at least 50 women ( and there are surely more than that) who were/are trailblazers for various reasons. Only about 1/2 of these would make my “favorites” list. Let the readers vote!
Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Jane Goodall
Thanks for the thought provoking topic. I appreciate you starting the list and thinking process. Of course there are so many more names to be added to the list, which I believe was exactly your intent with this “conversation”.
Great list.