I’m bringing you my first First Lady in my “Women Who Inspire Me” series. She’s a former first lady, activist, and lawyer. Ever since “Becoming” hit the best-seller list and became everyone’s favourite read of the past few years,…
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I’m bringing you my youngest “Woman Who Inspires Me” so far with this month’s entry. She’s a writer, a baker, and an all-around bad ass. Ruby Tandoh I first came across Ruby the way that most people did: on…
I haven’t written a “Women Who Inspire Me” post in ages; and I’m not sure that I’ve ever actually covered a politician. But today’s the day for both of those things! Elizabeth Warren Let me first get it out…
I haven’t written a “Women Who Inspire Me” post in ages, and today I’d thought I’d tackle a cliche choice (and hopefully reveal why that cliche is somewhat justified. Audrey Hepburn It almost seemed to be a prerequisite to…
Today’s Woman Who Inspires me is someone that I don’t expect most people to know, unless maybe they’ve trained as a midwife, Mizan therapist or doula (basically she’s big in the women’s health care circles) and that woman is: …
It’s been a long time since I’ve done a new instalment of my Women Who Inspire Me series. And I’ll be honest, this week, few people will know the subject because Women Who Inspire Me #11 is my paternal…
Today’s Women Who Inspire Me will probably be a woman that not a lot of you have necessarily heard about, but definitely deserves to be well known: Margaret Charles Smith. I only came across her when I was studying…
I really should learn more about women in STEM fields, because my Woman Who Inspires me this week is yet another writer. But as I’ve touched upon before, most of my personal interests tend to be drawn towards the…
For this instalment of Women Who Inspire Me, I’m bringing you an artist! I haven’t had an artist on my list for months (back when I profiled Georgia O’Keefe). I wrote last year about this particular woman and touched…
When I first started this series late last year (2017), I did warn you that my mom would be on this list, in its full but stereotypical glory. However, I wanted to get a few other women in the…