Can anyone name some current, American, female roll models outside

[spotbird]

of elected politics? I'm trying to help my kid with a paper and he wants to avoid controversy (not really a chip off the old block, oh well).

Thanks.

[DenverDem]

1. First, make sure he spells it "role".

Michelle Wie is a great young (woman) golfer. (Hawiian)

[Nailzberg]

2. Britney Spears

Working hard to allow 13 year old girls to dress like tarts.

[DenverDem]

4. Brittany doesn't show up for work.

And she's a wrong wing shill.

[Champ]

11. To allow? I thought that was the parents job to decide

what their daughter is allowed to wear. :shrug:

[Nailzberg]

15. Aww, come on, it was a joke.

[swag]

3. Hm

Joyce Carol Oates
Joan Didion
Susan Sontag
Dorothea Tanning
Ursula K. Le Guin
Patti Smith
Exene Cervenka
Sophia Coppola
Mary Gaitskill
Donna Tartt
Louise Bourgeois
Althea Gibson
Rosa Parks
Gloria Steinem

[DenverDem]

6. Man, you are good.

Great list.

[swag]

12. Sorry, not all of mine were "current"

Molly Ivins
Madeline Albright
Shirin Ebadi

[Snow]

5. Sister Helen Prejean, of 'dead men walking'?

did you mean 'role' model, by the way? I could think of some 'roll models' without much difficulty ;-)

[spotbird]

10. Someone whose characteristics would make them suitable to

be president. Sorry my initial post wasn't clear.

[hippiechick]

7. here's a few ....

Oprah
Marva Collins
Michelle Kwan

:hippie:

[Champ]

8. Oprah there is one

How about Sports? Annika Sorenstam, Lisa Leslie, Venus Williams, etc?
Movies? Cameron Diaz, she goes to the animal shelter alot and brings home dogs which I think is a nice thing to do. There are many.

[ohiosmith]

9. An excellent non-political roll model is the Pillsbury dough girl.

[eileen from OH]

13. Julia Childs, Caroline Kennedy,

are two of my favorites. From entertainment - Meryl Streep

eileen from OH

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

14. Sure

Mia Hamm, Lauryn Hill, Maya Angelou, Oprah...

There are a lot of female atheletes in the WNBA or WUSA...

[CO Liberal]

16. Here Are a Few "Roll Models"

Bacon Roll


Hard Roll


Soft Roll


:-)

[NewHampster]

17. Diana Taurasi

Watch her play her heart out tonight while always smiling and keeping it clean.

[RC]

18. Bethany Hamilton

Bethany Hamilton
Persevering after a shark attack
>snip<
"An amateur surfing champion ranked No. 8 in the world, Bethany had been planning on a professional surfing career. Just the weekend before, she’d come in second in the National Scholastic Surfing Association contest on the Big Island.

That Friday morning, nobody saw what was coming. At about 7:30 am, a 14-foot tiger shark emerged from the water below Bethany, taking a 17-inch-wide bite out of her orange, white and blue surfboard, and biting off Bethany’s left arm just below the shoulder."

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/137/story_13707_1.html

[Bertha Venation]

19. Political but not elected: Madeline Albright. eom

[eek]

20. here's a few

Christiane Amanpour
Jane Pauley
Patti Smith
Liz Winstead (creator of Comedy Central and Air America)
Mariane Pearl
Joan Rivers
Iman

google Top Women Scientists and you'll get a buncha cool stuff: astronomers, oceanographers etc

[MaineDem]

21. Sally Ride? (nt)