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elliotsmelliot

Happy International Women's Day! 100 years + 100 women=100 comments

Mar 08, 2011 10:23

Today is International Women's Day, an opportunity to reflect on the progress made in women's rights and acknowledge how much work is left toward the fight for equality ( Read more... )

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Sharon Valerii "Boomer", BSG elliotsmelliot March 8 2011, 15:33:49 UTC

Because she fought hard after losing everything - her identity, her home, her friends. Because she always took the path of most resistance, just to prove she still had free will.

Offred, The Handmaid's Tale elliotsmelliot March 8 2011, 15:37:34 UTC

Offering reflections on the 'time before' and now, Offred's narration and very existence demonstrates the importance of kindness and dignity in world with very little of either.

Princess Leia, Star Wars elliotsmelliot March 8 2011, 15:39:46 UTC

Levelheaded. Snarky. Passionate. I grew up wanting to be her. I still do.

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Re: Princess Leia, Star Wars elliotsmelliot March 9 2011, 15:21:49 UTC

"Captain, being held by you isn't quite enough to get me excited."

Except it was!

Rose Tyler sapphire_child March 8 2011, 15:44:42 UTC

A girl from a bad part of London who never finished her A-Levels (and whose biggest life achievement was winning some shitty gymnastics competition when she was six) who not only helped a man utterly shattered by war to heal and learn how to love again...but also stepped up without hesitation time and again to save people - to save the whole world at her own peril. Because it never occured to her that she shouldn't.

"You don't just give up! You don't just let things happen! You make a stand...you say no. You have the guts to do what's right when everyone else just runs away, and I just can't-!"

Lorelai Gilmore, Gilmore Girls ozmissage March 8 2011, 16:03:21 UTC

She found out she was pregnant when she was sixteen and rather than follow the path her parents set out for her (marriage, living under their roof) she forged her own. She took her daughter and she left on her terms to build a life for them. And not just any life, but a good and happy one. She's a fast talking, coffee loving, pop culture obsessed, stubborn, funny, vibrant woman and a terrific mother.

I think Rory explained it best:

But my ultimate inspiration comes from my best friend; the dazzling woman from whom I received my name and my life’s blood, Lorelai Gilmore. My mother never gave me any idea that I couldn’t do whatever I wanted to do or be whomever I wanted to be. She filled our house with love and fun and books and music, unflagging in her efforts to give me role models from Jane Austen to Eudora Welty to Patti Smith. As she guided me through these incredible 18 years I don’t know if she ever realized that the person I most wanted to be was her. Thank you, mom, you are my guidepost for everything.