sansets' Women Appreciation Challenge - Day 1
I stumbled across the interesting challenge
sansets posted and figured I'd participate. The following is my list of "the awesome women you can think of."
Fictional
Beka Valentine - pilot/commander of the Eureka Maru (Andromeda)
Cordelia Vorkosigan ne Naismith - Commander Betan Astronomical Survey, Captain Betan Expedtionary Force, sensible woman on a rather crazy planet (Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga)
Elli Quinn - Dendarii Mercenary Commander (and eventual Admiral) (see above)
Fiolla of Lorrd - Assistant Auditor-General, Corporate Sector Authority (but one of the good guys...er...gals) (Brian Daley's Han Solo's Revenge)
Flavia di Stefano - investigator, Italian National Art Theft Squad (Iain Pears' art history mysteries)
Jinky Sanders - teenage mystery solver (Frances Duncombe's Ghost at Garnet Lodge) [first mystery I ever read, out of print even then]
Kerowyn - mercenary captain and reluctant Herald of Valdemar (Mercedes Lackey's By the Sword)
Nicola Ferris - vacationer in Crete and helper of hero in distress (Mary Stewart's The Moon-Spinners) [no good online description]
Polly Whittacker - writer and rescuer of friend/love from fairy queen (Diane Wynne Jones' Fire and Hemlock)
Rune - determined woman bard (Mercedes Lackey's The Lark and the Wren) [no good online description]
Sydney Fox - globe trotting archaeologist (Relic Hunter)
Historical
Amelia Earhart - pilot, vanished during attempt to fly around the world
Artemisia Gentileschi - Italian Early Baroque painter
Bessie Coleman - pilot, first American woman to hold an international pilot license
Christine de Pizan - Europe's first professional woman writer
Dickey Chapelle - American photojournalist and war correspondent WWII to Vietnam
Elizabeth Cady Stanton - outspoken activist for women's rights
Justina Ford - first African American woman doctor in Colorado
Margaret Mead - cultural anthropologist
Marie Curie - physicist, chemist, first woman professor at the Sorbonne
Lady Murasaki - poet and writer of possibly the first novel
And, however corny and fake it seems, I will add my mom - activist, geologist, writer, and good friend. For that matter, all awesome women I know that overlooked in my discomfort with naming living and especially personally known people.
Edited to add: Two fictional women I forgot: Abby of NCIS and Risa Hawkeye of Full Metal Alchemist. [sorry no links, I got lazy.]