Most Admired Women?

Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz, Luisa Josefina Hernandez, Elena Garro, Gabriela Mistral, Rosario Ferre, Rosario Castellanos, Julia Alvarez, Flannery O'Connor, Gertrudiz Gomez de Avellaneda, Alfonsina Storni, Griselda Gambaro, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Virginia Wolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Alice Munro, Eudora Welty, Violeta Parra, Nicole Holfcener, Jane Campion, Lucrecia Martell

Here are some ideas: Anne Frank, Aretha Franklin, Anne Boleyn, Beth Ditto, Benazir Bhutto, Beyonce, Coco Chanel, Caitlin Moran, Charlotte Bronte, Diana Gabaldon, Drew Barrymore, Queen Elizabeth I, Ellen DeGeneres, Eva Peron, Frida Kahlo, Florence Nightingale, Germaine Greer Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire, Gillian Armstrong, Helen Keller, Helen Mirren, Hillary Clinton, Ita Buttrose, Joan of Arc, Jane Austen, Jane Campion, Kate Bush, Kate Winslet, Kim Cattrall, Laura Eneaver, Lauren Huxley, Lady gaga, Malala Yousafzai, Maya Angelou, Marilyn French, Nefertiti of Egypt, Natalie Portman, Nicole Kidman, Oprah Winfrey, Olivia Newton John, Pocahontas, ***** Riot, Pink, Rosa Parks, Rachel Ward, Sophie Scholl, Shelley Winters, Shirley Manson, Tina Turner, Tegan Wagner, Tavi Gevinson, Queen Victoria…

I think there is a difference between women who are looked up to as great and significant historical figures, and women who are admired? I'm sure it's a bit of both. There are many more historical female figures that you have not listed. Admiration is different for everyone. When I picture admired, I think of women like, Jackie Kennedy, Kate Middleton, Angelina Jolie, Audrey Heburn, Marilyn Monroe, Malala Yousafzai, Ellen degenerous, Oprah, Julia Roberts, Michelle Obama, Victoria Beckham, kim kardashian (sadly) and Ivonka Trump. Just to name a few

Rosa Parks, Maya Angelou, Betty Ford, Jackie Kennedy, Princess Diana, Golda Meir, Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria, Elizabeth II

Diana prince, Hillary Clinton, Anna Ohura, Angelbaby, Barbara Boxer, Priscilla Chan, Marilyn Monroe, Wonder woman, Selena, Kate Winslet.

Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Ella Fitzgerald, Ellen DeGeneres, Beyonce`

The astrophysicists at Harvard, led by Annie Jump Cannon. Hypatia is a much-admired scientist of antiquity who was martyred. Vera Rubin discovered Dark Matter by examining the rotational velocities of stars in the galaxies. Along scientific lines, Nicole-Reine Lepaute the mathematical astronomer, and Caroline Herschel, the astronomer.

Diane de Poitiers, Isabelle D'Este, of the Renaissance period. Angelica Kaufmann, Vigee-Lebrun, Mary Cassatt, artists...

Any list should be divided into various categories: science, physics, statesmanship (excuse the masculine term), medicine, literature, art, etc etc.

Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Ella Fitzgerald

Aethelflaed Lady of the Mercians (869 to 918) defeated the Vikings 3 times at least, to help expand Wessex after her Father Alfred the Great had secured Wessex from Viking invasion. She actually led the battles and was in the thick of the fighting on at least two occasions.

Lady Ada Lovelace, (1815 to 1852) accredited as the first Computer Programmer.

Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of Henry II, Mother of Kings Richard I and John, and also most powerful woman in 12th Century Europe.

Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister, (1925 to 2013)

Emily Bronte, Novelist, (1818 to 1848) Wuthering Heights.

Elizabeth Fry, Prison and Social reformer, changed the whole way Society looked at Prisons and how they should be Run and what they were for. (1780 to 1845)

SOE (WW2) Female Operatives, working behind enemy lines in Europe, too numerous to mention, many gave their lives, some horrifically tortured, others survived, but all helped us to defeat Nazism.

Nurse Edith Cavell, WW1 heroine shot for spying, by the Germans, she had been helping POWs escape, but also had helped many German Soldiers, survive. Her words before she was shot are a tribute to Humanity, "As I stand here with God as my Witness, I realise that, Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone." Her death was one of the key reasons USA entered WW1 on the side of Britain.

Emily Davison, suffragette, (1872 to 1913) she hid in the House of Commons on the night of the Census, as a protest, doing this had her address as Westminster Parliament in the Census. She died in a most sensational way (though probably accidental) when trying to attach a protest note to the 'Kings' Horse in the English Derby.

The Pankhursts, a family of Women who championed women's Suffrage, but also knew when to call a halt, namely for WW1, the deal being the Women's Suffrage movement would back the War effort, in exchange for the right to Vote. It was granted in 1919, USA soon followed in 1920.

In Islam, several admired women are...

Bibi Fatima

Bibi Kadjiha

Bibi Sakina

Bibi Zaineb