Re: Quotes
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Fri, 01 Jan 1999 23:20:23 +1100
Patti Larrabee wrote:
> I would agree with E. Roosevelt and Margaret Sanger in the top ten.
These lists are difficult, > as we know. Is there really a difference
between #64 and # 72? Anyway, I am glad to see > Sanger, she really did
CHANGE things.
Well ... it's hard to say. The introduction to the book talks about how the
woman surveyed a lot of universities and stuff to come to a conclusive list
- but also that quite a few people thought she was crazy to do so, which I
sort of agree with. Eleanor Roosevelt may have been very influential in
America, but frankly I doubt she did a bean for, for example, Australia.
It'd be very difficult to put together such a list without a bias towards
your own country and experiences of influential women. Again citing a
(near) local example - she puts Susan B. Anthony and numerous other
suffragettes in the list. Yet New Zealand was the first country in the
world to give women the vote, and the campaigners responsible for this are
certainly not mentioned in this book. Like I said - not a task I think I'd
be willing to take on! But then again, the woman who compiled it said she
hoped it would provoke debate - how could anything like this do otherwise
(: ?
Camille
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