Re: Quotes

Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Sat, 02 Jan 1999 12:38:17 +1100 

Sorry - I meant to add that I wholeheartedly agree with the inclusion of
Sanger in the top 10, she really embodies what I felt was lacking in some
of the other inclusions - that is, a worldwide or at least widespread
influence rather than influence only on the Americas and their surrounds.
Although you could argue by those terms that as Baywatch is watched all
over the world Pamela Anderson should have been nominated ... arguably
meaning she has more `influence'. I guess that illustrates the fact that it
would be utterly self defeating to try and nominate the 100 most
influential men of all time, in order.

For the record - 64 was Maria Montessori (pioneer of female education), 72
was Amelia Earhart (:.

Camille
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> I would agree with E. Roosevelt and Margaret Sanger in the top ten. 
> These lists are difficult, as we know.  Is there really a difference
> between #64 and # 72?  Anyway, I am glad to see Sanger, she really did
> CHANGE things.
> 
> Well ... it's hard to say. The introduction to the book talks about how
the
> woman surveyed a lot of universities and stuff to come to a conclusive
list
> - but also that quite a few people thought she was crazy to do so, which
I
> sort of agree with. Eleanor Roosevelt may have been very influential in
> America, but frankly I doubt she did a bean for, for example, Australia.
> It'd be very difficult to put together such a list without a bias towards
> your own country and experiences of influential women. Again citing a
> (near) local example - she puts Susan B. Anthony and numerous other
> suffragettes in the list. Yet New Zealand was the first country in the
> world to give women the vote, and the campaigners responsible for this
are
> certainly not mentioned in this book. Like I said - not a task I think
I'd
> be willing to take on! But then again, the woman who compiled it said she
> hoped it would provoke debate - how could anything like this do otherwise
> (: ?
> 
> Camille
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