OT: I identify with.....

Anne Boleyn. I have a raging sinus infection and losing my head sounds like a sensible option.

Boudicca - she so NEARLY beat the Romans! She was a local gal, too!

Pat

Oh Honey {{{{{ }}}}}

Feel better soon!!! Caryn

ROFLMAO, because I know that feeling well!

Meanwhile, ginger tea. And toss lots of ginger and garlic into chicken soup -- they'll not only clear your sinuses, but the garlic will work on the infection, too.

I don't know. It would have to be a blue-stocking who married but never had kids, who pursued a technical area of interest...

EG

I feel your pain, Brenda (and identify strongly.) I don't have a sinus infection but a nasty cold.

Alison PS This is a nice thread though, so to get it back on track I'd say Anne Hutchinson.

Great thread!!

First that came to mind was an ancestress of mine, Dorothea Dix, and here's a quote that explains why: "In her life her goals were not defined, she simply did whatever would best help people." and later in the biography about her, "Later in life she commented that "I never knew childhood" (Schlaifer, 1991). This was mainly because of her parents unstable household..."

Ah, so close to home .

Larisa, still pondering over this thread

Since Brenda's already taken Anne Boleyn, I'll take Marie Antoinette, for the same "off with her head" reason. Today the sinuses don't hurt, but it might make more sense to suspend the head over a bucket to collect all the drainage. (Today's financial advice: Buy stock in Kleenex.)

Besides, the notion of eating cake always sounds good to me.

A friend of Joan of Arc, at least until the election is over. Every time I turn on the tv someone is lighting a fire under someone else.

Hot and sour soup

Cheryl

Still thinking of someone that I identify with......

Ok - I've been through my list of "heroes" - I'll take Marie Curie - she did good science and had a family.

Cheryl

That's a hard one! I'll think on it - Maria Mitchell maybe?

And Fisherman's Friend cough drops! Nothing like 'em for clearing out the gunk.

Sue

Is this a Madame Curie thing - except for dieing as a result of her work?

I haven't decided yet - but I like the bluestocking thing. I'm with you. I'm thinking more George Sand - with crazy thing for Chopin, friends in the music world, and other interests. Or, maybe the American woman painter whose name just ran out of my head - that showed with the Impressionist Salon - had to go to Paris because her proper upper class folks here weren't keen on her career choice. When I was young, it was Chopin that I identified with. Don't ask.

I have to think more.

Mary Cassatt.

Good choice! Madame Curie is another, but I agree -- I don't like the idea of dieing for my science EG

Oooh. Another good one = Dorothea Dix (went to college VERY close to Dix Hospital in Raleigh NC). What about Clara Barton? Or Florence Nightengale?

EG

I don't know if this qualifies, but for me, it's my great-grandmother. I never knew her, but have heard lots of stories and she had one of those very distinctive personalities that get handed down through the wimmenfolk of the family.

For me I think it would be Margaret Sanger? I'm proud to report that my grandmother demonstrated with her on the lower East Side of New York. I never knew that grandmother because she died of the Spanish Flu in 1918, but I dearly wish I had. I think I would have liked her a lot.

Lucille

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Topic drift alert:

Right now, I can't think of anyone who is like me but here's a list of people I would've liked to emulate:

Anna Pavlova Nelson Mandela Madame Curie Eleanor Roosevelt Ghandi Martin Luther King Golda Meir