re: What female great intellect would you most like to sit and chat with

Posted by L1C4

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Posted on 5/23/23 at 7:57 am to OWLFAN86

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Posted by Tridentds

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Posted on 5/23/23 at 7:58 am to OWLFAN86

Barbara Jordan and Margaret Thatcher at top of my list.

Posted by GasMan

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Posted on 5/23/23 at 8:02 am to Tridentds

Emily Dickinson

Posted by jeffsdad

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Posted on 5/23/23 at 8:06 am to L1C4

I spent 2 hours talking to a naked Bo Derek at Dana Point years back. From 1am till 3am. Smarter and sillier than perceived. But she was high. I’m good.

Posted by Decatur

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Posted on 5/23/23 at 8:10 am to OWLFAN86

Natalie Portman

Posted by 3nOut

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Posted on 5/23/23 at 8:34 am to DVinBR

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Margaret Hamilton standing next to the code she wrote for the Apollo missions

She got put in charge by her husband well after the majority of work was done by 100s of others.

The 2 girls that proofed the Pythagorean Theorem recently are more impressive. Or even the Hidden Figures ladies and Jack Black's mom (Judith Cohen.)

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Posted by jrobic4

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Posted on 5/23/23 at 8:38 am to OWLFAN86

Do they have to be alive today? I'd be interested in learning more about the founder of Epic, by most accounts the first self-made woman billionaire.

Margaret Thatcher might be interesting as wel...

Posted by teke184

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Posted on 5/23/23 at 8:40 am to OWLFAN86

Not Marie Curie.

Great intellect but even her fricking corpse is radioactive IIRC.

Posted by Lsupimp

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Many, but point made.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Camille Paglia
Heather McDonald
Melanie Phillips
Christina Hoff Summers
Marigny Zimple

Posted by LaLadyinTx

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Posted on 5/23/23 at 8:49 am to zippyputt

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Hedy Lamarr. Glad someone listed her already.
Marie Currie.
Margaret Thatcher.

I would love these. Also, Golda Meir.

All these powerful women came up in a time where women just didn't do what they were doing. Well, Thatcher was towards the end of that time.

I know it was hard for them. I'm sure people thought them strange to do what they were doing. But I'm thankful for the women who came before me!

Posted by Leon the pro

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Posted on 5/23/23 at 9:01 am to LRB1967

I actually met her and had no idea who it was . Early 90’s in between blanchard and oil city. I had stopped to get gas and her and her driver drove up in a silver bentley/rolls. I commented on her car. Sweet lady.

Posted by fightingtiger62

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Posted on 5/23/23 at 9:01 am to LaLadyinTx

Mother Teresa. I'm not even Catholic

Posted by Kyrie Eleison

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Posted on 5/23/23 at 9:21 am to OWLFAN86

Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe

Simone de Beauvoir

Posted by marigny

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Posted on 5/23/23 at 9:29 am to OWLFAN86

Edith Wharton. Plenty intellectual enough for me.

Posted by msap9020

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Posted on 5/23/23 at 9:30 am to jnethe1

quote:
Margaret thatcher

Came to post this.

Posted by deltaland

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Posted on 5/23/23 at 9:32 am to OWLFAN86

Margaret Thatcher

Posted by LSUSkip

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Posted on 5/23/23 at 9:42 am to OWLFAN86

Intellectual? No.

Give me fine as hell and dumb as a box of rocks. Smart women that know they're smart are a scourge on this planet. You think an average woman is never wrong? Try one who's an "intellect"