Challenge: All You Women Independent

[gelbes_gilatier]

Okay, so since there are at least a few interested in a challenge for Women's Day/Women's History Month, I thought we could actually try it since I'm curious to if people can come up with prompts and stories fitting the theme. Since this is a rather impromptu challenge, I'll give deadlines but won't mind if people claimed prompts after closing the

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[gelbes_gilatier]

Prompts:

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. - Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. - Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. - Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women

...throw your hands up at me!

[scherryzade]

Ah, this is a neat idea - sorry I missed the poll. I'm hopefully going to have time to actually _write in March, so I will try and put up some prompts before the end of the week.

(I'm holiday, yet I'm working. How is this fair?)

Oh, hey, how about: The first woman who slapped Rodney for paying more attention to her body than her equations... (because, I love him, but, seriously...)

Re: ...throw your hands up at me!

[scherryzade]

I have some better prompts now :)

The first woman to command a gate team from the SGC.

The first picture in this 'Big Picture' post.

The picture in this 'Boing Boing' post.

This poster (The smallar tagline says "There are no female Marines. Only Marines".

And a more generally prompt, just to say that I always like reading stories that feature character's mothers...