NationStates Jolt Archive

Who is your favorite female leader in world history?

I like Elizabeth I, cool gal, didn't take any crap and did a good job bringing Britain into its own.

Who is your favorite female leader in world history?

Anyone but that evil bitch Thatcher.

My favorite leader was Alice Paul, whose work led to the right for women to vote.

My mom.

Does Madame Chiang Kai-shek count?

Anyone but that evil bitch Thatcher.
quoted for truth and justice.

There were too few women leaders, which is a real pity. That means that mine is recent: Margaret Thatcher. She saved Britain from self-destruction, and was, in a sense, like the Lenin of modern liberal thought. The one who shows the most promise today would have to be Ukraines new prime minister, Yulia Tomenshenko.

Queen Boudicca (http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/boudicca.shtml) (That's how the BBC spells it) of the Iceni

Anyone but that evil bitch Thatcher.

ROFLMAO!!!

Queen Boudicca (http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/boudicca.shtml) (That's how the BBC spells it) of the Iceni
Bodaceous buxom Boudicca... Mmmm...

It would have to be Granuaile (Grace O'Malley) for me. A real fighter and squared up to that nasty English bitch Elizabeth I!!!

That means that mine is recent: Margaret Thatcher. She saved Britain from self-destruction, and was, in a sense, like the Lenin of modern liberal thought.

Explain to me how Thatcher was a liberal, would you?

Who is your favorite female leader in world history?

Ben Hur!

Kim Campbell - hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!! :p

Margrethe, of RAH's Job.
A couple should never fight in public. You could say the sun was made of green and purple puppy dogs, and I wouldn't bat an eye.Coming after the conversation where she (privately) rips apart the lead's job, his views on sex, and his religion. Leaves the man with more a bewildered sense of respect than anything the confused rage.

Joan of Arc.

Nothing better to lead the French at war than a crazy militant christian chick. :)

Queen Victoria, played a huge part in the success of the British Empire. :)

Oprah!

Queen Victoria, played a huge part in the success of the British Empire. :)

Actually, that was more Disraeli's doing. And before him, Lords Russell and Palmerston. Also, Prince Albert, her husband and Prince Consort.

As for Joan of Arc, she was a fanatic and her long-term rule would have been bad for France.

As for Elizabeth, England was actually in an economic slump by the end of her reign.

I don't know this RAH.

And Boudicca LOST!

If we're talking female rulers, why not Queen Margaret of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden- the "Semiramis of the North"? She was far more successful than the ones you guys have named.

I like Elizabeth I, cool gal, didn't take any crap and did a good job bringing Britain into its own.

She's my favourite too, except I think she took a bit of crap. But I agree that Oprah should be Potus.

Joan of Arc.

Nothing better to lead the French at war than a crazy militant christian chick. :)
I agree, completly nutso, but one of the best leaders the french ever had.

Hilary Clinton

She's my favourite too, except I think she took a bit of crap. But I agree that Oprah should be Potus.

Oprah! That crazy talk-show host is the LAST PERSON we need in the White House!

Next, you'll be praising that tyrannical bitch Indira Gandhi, I suppose! She ignored her criminal conviction in 1975 for election fraud, imposed a "state of emergency", arrested dissidents, gagged the press, and outlawed her opposition, which is why they threw her out of office. She also cozied up to Brezhnev and forced men to get vasectomies (some men need vasectomies, but that's not the government's business).

Hilary Clinton

No thanks. I prefer to keep this a FREE COUNTRY, not a lawyers' paradise!

If we're talking female rulers, why not Queen Margaret of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden- the "Semiramis of the North"? She was far more successful than the ones you guys have named.I'm a fan of Bodacia myself, and question is not the most effective female leader, but instead favorite. Margret was a good leader, but this is a popularity poll and let's face it, while gaining control of Sweeden through leveraging a bounced cheque may be good politics, it is not good theatre.

No thanks. I prefer to keep this a FREE COUNTRY, not a lawyers' paradise!

What does one have to do with the other? Lawyers are against freedom?

Oprah! That crazy talk-show host is the LAST PERSON we need in the White House!

Next, you'll be praising that tyrannical bitch Indira Gandhi, I suppose!

No I won't! :) And I think Oprah seems rather nice! Much nicer than the present crazy talk-show host.

What does one have to do with the other? Lawyers are against freedom?

If your freedom to act is constantly restricted by lawsuits and regulations favored by lawyers, then YES, lawyers are hostile to freedom!

No I won't! :) And I think Oprah seems rather nice! Much nicer than the present crazy talk-show host.

Which present host?

Which present host?

The president, of course.

Actually, that was more Disraeli's doing. And before him, Lords Russell and Palmerston. Also, Prince Albert, her husband and Prince Consort.

As for Joan of Arc, she was a fanatic and her long-term rule would have been bad for France.

As for Elizabeth, England was actually in an economic slump by the end of her reign.

I don't know this RAH.

And Boudicca LOST!

If we're talking female rulers, why not Queen Margaret of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden- the "Semiramis of the North"? She was far more successful than the ones you guys have named.

How about the actual Semiramis? Though my favorite is Tomyris. She kicked Cyrus the Great's ass.
Led her little tribe, the Masagetae (sp?) against the Persian Empire. Killed Cyrus the Great. Tough woman.

Cyrus originally offered to marry her, but she refused. She knew it was just a ploy to get control of her lands. She told him to rule his own and try to stand the sight of her ruling hers. He didn't take her advice. He threw a party and invited her nobles, then attacked them. He captured her son, who committed suicide while in captivity. She told Cyrus he'd have all the blood he could swallow. When Cyrus was killed, she put a funnel in his mouth and poured in blood until it overflowed.

Or Artemisia. She was refused a military position by the Greeks, so she went over to the Persians. She advised against a naval battle with the Athenians, but was overuled. When the Greeks were obviously going to win, she rammed one of her own ships, thus confusing the Greeks long enough to make her escape.

The president, of course.

I'm not a big Dubya fan, but I voted for him as the lesser evil. I just don't like Oprah's leftist politics and half-baked Victorian morality.

If they're ueber kick-ass, they get my vote!

Cleopatra, Nefertiti

Egypt was nothing with out them :)

Ooh! Ooh! Tony Blair!

http://www.gallica.co.uk/celts/boudica.htm

Mel Gibson needs to make a movie about her.

I was always impressed by Eleanor Roosevelt, Helen of Troy, and Margaret Thatcher.


(Yes, that last one was just to goad some of you. :D )

Margaret Thatcher was a woman with big brass balls.

Golda Meir.

None of you said Aung Sang Su Chi (sp?), you should all be ashamed!

Jean d'Arc!

Allons enfants de la patrie!

None of you said Aung Sang Su Chi (sp?), you should all be ashamed!

Well, some of us will be more impressed when she actually takes the country over. It's like stepping back in time, and giving Gandhi a big award for being the greatest leader - but doing it right after the march to the sea, instead of after the Independence.

Golda Meir.

I was going to say maggie, but you have corrected my thought. Golda is the one.