Conference turris::womannotes-v3

    I admire Molly Yard, President of NOW (National Organization of Women),
    for her strength and never-ending battle for the rights of women,
    *ALL* women! She's an incredible woman and I had to honor of hearing
    her speak last year in DC!
    
    Laurie

    I admire Meryl Streep for her wonderful acting ability, her
    beauty and the fact that she wore a leather jacket in "Postcards
    from the Edge" with a pink triangle on it! Good for you Meryl :-)
    
    Laurie

    =maggie
    
    and I can't even begin to give the reasons why, and she'd probably
    shoot me if I did.
    
    Bonnie

    
    faye wattleton, president of planned parenthood
    patricia schroeder, representative to congress
    

    My wife for reasons detailed elsewhere in this conference

    My mother in law for being a single parent who raised an
    exceptional daughter while at the same time making her way
    forward in a man's world (stodgy Wall Street banks of 25-30
    years ago almost being worse than much we can imagine today). For
    the fighting spirit she's shown in dealing with a major stroke
    that forced her disability retirement years before she was
    ready emotionally or financially to to stop work. To say nothing
    of the obstacles she has physically.

    Grace Murray Hopper for reasons that should be obvious to all
    in our industry. She's done more to make standards "happen" in
    computers then anyone alive or dead. She's inspired me for over
    15 years (the first time I heard her speak.)

    			Alfred

    RE: .3
    
    I meant to put in the base note that "women you admire" can be living
    or dead.
    
    Laurie

	Ayn Rand.  For having survived Soviet Russia and the
	revolution; for telling us what it was like to
	live there; and for telling us how to avoid the
	philosophical traps that the Russian people fell
	victim to.....

	Steve H

	Patty Wagstaff and Ellen Dean

	Non-aviators may not know of these two women, but they
	are currently members of the US Aerobatic Team.   The
	team represented the US in international flight
	competition in Switzerland this past summer.

	Wagstaff is VERY directed, and trains and practices
	constantly.

	I used to watch Dean practice down in Florida.  She 
	would take her Pitts biplane ( a difficult plane for
	ANYONE to master ) through a small part of a difficult,
	inverted maneuver time and time again.  For 20 minutes
	she would roll the plane upside down, then push the
	plane over into an arc, then arc back over upside down,
	in a big 'S' curve.  She would feel 4.5 Gs positive and
	negative.

	The old hands at the airport, some of them former
	WWII fighter pilots, would wince and shake their heads.

	Repeatedly doing these maneuvers was a guarantee of
	of a headache for most...yet she is a perfectionist...


	Steve H

    Pat Brindisi, for reasons detailed in note 111.

    My dear, dear friend Vicky, for having struggled against impossible
    odds at saving her marriage and her 18 year old son who 1 year ago
    was dying of cancer.  
    
    Both are surviving and doing very well, only because of her positive
    attitude and her incredible "yes I can" ability. 

    Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem for their work to help women and 
    Feminism.
    Carol

    
    a few out of so very many:
    
    	Judy Tenuta...for her wonderful, quirky sense of humor.
    
    	Ann Frank...for her incredible courage and sensativity.
    
    	Marie Curie...for her sharp, inquisitive intellect and
    	contributions to science.
    
    	Mother Theresa...for her inexhustable love and compassion.
    
    	

    
    
    My aunt, who adopted me at the age of twelve and basically saved my
    life. She did this while "recovering" from a masectomy and going to law
    school. She was also a wife and a mother, and I was definitely not an
    easy kid to raise.
    
    She died five years ago, on Easter, at the age of 34. I always admired
    her raw strength and honesty. I miss her much...