Last night, I had trouble sleeping as I reviewed this part of yesterday's post
"Without blushing, Paul is simply stating that when it comes to leading in the church, women are unfit because they are more gullible and easier to deceive than men. Before you get all emotional like a woman in hearing this, please consider the content of the women's magazines at your local grocery store that encourages liberated women in our day to watch porno with their boyfriends, master oral sex for men who have no intention of marrying them, pay for their own dates in the name of equality, spend an average of three-fourths of their childbearing years having sex but trying not to get pregnant, and abort 1/3 of all babies – and ask yourself if it doesn’t look like the Serpent is still trolling the garden and that the daughters of Eve aren’t gullible in pronouncing progress, liberation, and equality.”
I have one thing to ask. What in the world are the sons of Adam doing while their womenfolk are having sex, oral or otherwise and watching porno with someone. With who? Demons? Driscoll, in his poorly exegeted pronouncement demonstrates quite clearly that women are not the only ones who are deceived. Good flaming night! What are they teaching in seminary these days?
I had a similar thoughts after reading yesterday’s post. 1) as a believer, I am not picking up the magazine at the grocery checkout for instructions on how to “walk in a manner worthy.” 2) the bible says I have been given everything I need for life and godliness, the power to not be deceived, and 3) at least the womens’ magazines can be presented in the checkout line, how about those gentleman’s magazines? Please consider the content of those magazines, Mr. Driscoll.
He is frigthening me.
i would guess – from the quote above – that he thinks it’s OK for husbands and wives to watch porn together, though he hasn’t publicly said so (to my knowledge, at least).
Talk about being beaten over the head with a demeaning message! I think he’s at the top of the list re. misogyny. (And yes, I’m a feminist, though not the kind that guys like Driscoll rant about. ;))
Stunned
Glad to hear your response. Why? I think that many people, upon hearing this man, feel that way but stuff it because he is supposed to be cool and is endorsed by some the supposed Reformission “leaders” so he must be OK, right?
What a shame. I hope his wife has SOMEONE who is really looking out for her safety. Driving all that way just because she forgot to call him? She should have called the police. Sounds like stalking to me!
Someone should do an intervention with this ‘pastor’. He’s dangerous, un-Christlike, and quite frightening.
jack allen
It sure sounds like that to me. But, I’m just a woman, what do I know?
jack,
I’ll bet Grace called her parents to let them know that she arrived at the university safely. Maybe Driscoll should have checked with them before acting like a maniac.
YOu know what the worst part of this message really is? Driscoll does not believe in the power of the Cross for women. It was not enough to overcome what he claims is inherent deception and gullibility in females.
What a tiny God he believes in. And why not? Men are the gods for women.
Conversely, he must admit that Adam sinned with his eyes wide open and on purpose. So, this must mean Driscoll believes these are bettter inherent character traits for leadership.
Driscoll not only fits the profile of a narcissist, he also fits the profile of a typical school yard bully.
Hey ladies,
Maybe we should boycott grocery shopping since we are so gullible and easily deceived that we will be jaded by the trashy offerings at the checkout stand. I certainly hope Mark is doing all the grocery shopping for the family. It would make sense since he feels the need to screen all her e-mails.
Deb,
Too funny. I was just telling my husband this morning that it’s too bad he thinks so highly of me and my abilities. Otherwise, I’d figure out how to convince him I wasn’t capable of grocery shopping, housework, laundry, etc. and he’d have to do it all for me. The unfortunate thing is that most husbands with over the top interpretations of gender roles are probably harsh bordering on abusive, if not outright abusive, if their wives don’t fulfill their roles the way their husband’s expect them to.
Jenn,
I guess I’ll have to forbid my daughters (ages 18 and 21) from shopping, too, since they are so easily deceived (being the weaker sex). 🙁 I guess all the effort I put into raising them to be godly young ladies just doesn’t count.
Since you are fairly new to TWW, you might be interested in a post I wrote about two years ago when Mark Driscoll came and spoke to my older daughter’s college ministry group. By the way, I am still VERY MAD about Driscoll’s corrupting influence on that wonderful group of students (and probably countless others all over the country). And he thinks minds are being perverted by the secular world?
Parents, please read my post… You will be absolutely SHOCKED at what Driscoll is sharing with our sons and daughters right under our noses.
http://thewartburgwatch.com/2009/04/23/driscolls-sex-tips-and-the-tipping-point/
He’s welcome to buy my groceries if he fancies paying for them too!
Come to think of it, I’m feeling particularly susceptible right now and could do with a new laptop. Perhaps I should shoot him an email and ask him to sort it out for me because left to my own devices I’d probably just buy a lipstick or something by mistake.
I would ask my other half but he’s got this weird idea in his head about me being able to handle my own life. I feel so unprotected! 🙁
..shaking my head in bewilderment ..
last time I looked (which isn’t very often) the contents of women’s magazines was a LOT more innocuous than the contents of men’s magazines.
I think it’s Mr. Driscoll who’s under major deception and showing lack of discernment.
Does he monitor his wife’s reading too? I’m getting really bad vibes about how much he controls her life.
BTW, I’m happy to buy my own groceries, but I think he’d better come and do my cleaning. How can I possibly discern where the dirt is?
Shouldn’t it go something like this:
Eve was deceived = all women are gullible
Adam was a poor leader who let Eve be deceived = all men are poor leaders
Hmm….
In all honesty we lean towards the complementarian view ourselves, but there seem to be lots of people, especially famous pastors, applying it in extreme and unbiblical ways.
Or, maybe Driscoll’s right and all of us satanic busybodies should get off the internet and go cook dinner or something.
Jenn,
Just finished with dinner, and now I’m multi-tasking — watching NCIS with my hubby and surfing the net…
Here’s my question. How can a Christian woman who is being led by the Holy Spirit be gullible and easily deceived?
Lucy said:
“I would ask my other half but he’s got this weird idea in his head about me being able to handle my own life. I feel so unprotected! 🙁 ”
Love your comment!
Since Mark speaks so “knowledgeable” about those ” women’s magazines at your local grocery store that encourages liberated women” to……..My guess is that Mark reads those “Garbage magazine too” and begs his wife to read them to him before he goes nighty – night – otherwise How would HE know?
Dr Who,
I cringe to think about what Mark Driscoll must be reading… Maybe that’s why he interprets the Song of Songs in such a twisted way. He’s definitely tickling the ears of his male sycophants, and he knows it! I feel sorry for the women who attend Mars Hill Church.
Think about it, the man is twisted.
He uses a book of the bible like other men use their hand and a magazine.
Sick puppy.
Why is this attractive to anyone?
DB,
Just like pornography corrupts the mind, so do sick jokes. I believe Almighty God will hold Mark Driscoll accountable for corrupting the meaning of Ecclesiastes 9:10 before a watching world. Unfortunately for Driscoll, he doesn’t seem to comprehend the seriousness of his sin.
Deb,
Maybe Driscoll thinks the women don’t get as big of a dose of the Spirit and that’s why they need a man. Either get married or be a Return of the Daughters girl for life baby!
I wonder what his sermons geared towards men sound like. Besides raunchy that is. I already know they’re sure to sound raunchy.
This (I believe) is a result of biblicism.
Instead of taking a text and lifting out of it the gospel, they (biblicists) use their ‘law lens’ to parse it out like a bunch of Jewish rabbis.
There is so much biblicism in the church today that it makes you want to gag.
Thanks.
Deb
He can’t comprehend it if he is self absorbed.
Steve Martin
Well stated. I remember someone telling me that I shouldn’t read so much about the Bible because the Bible can explain itself. Well, there are one too many pastors out there who disagree with one another on many points. If it was so gosh darn easy, why is that the case?
Too many stick to a wooden, literal translation and miss the deeper meaning of many passages. Although, I do find it funny how these folks skip over things like wearing a head covering and lots of jewelry. Fashion trumps literalism any day of the week.
Just a few of the women who chose NOT to follow Mark Driscoll’s advice to stay at home and raise children. The world is immeasurably richer and a better place because of their contributions.
Joan of Arc (1412 – 1431) helped the French defeat the English, was burned at the stake in 1431
Sacagawea (1787? – 1812) guide and interpreter for Lewis & Clark Expedition
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896) wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” about slavery in the south, sold over 500,000 copies in the US, helped to bring the nation’s attention to the horrors of slavery
Susan B. Anthony (1820 – 1906) formed the National Woman’s Suffrage Association, pioneer in the fight for Women’s Rights, first woman to have her picture on an American coin (silver dollar)
Florence Nightingale (1820 – 1910) nurse, worked on the battlefield during the Crimean War, considered the founder of modern nursing
Harriet Tubman (1820 – 1913) born a slave, abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad, led over 300 slaves to freedom
Clara Barton (1821 – 1912) nurse during the Civil War, founded American Red Cross
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821 – 1910) first woman physician (doctor), founded the New York Infirmary for Women and Children in 1857, founded Women’s Medical College in 1867
Louisa May Alcott (1832 – 1888) famous author, wrote “Little Women” and “Little Men,” worked to get voting rights for women
Susie King Taylor (1848 – 1912) African American Civil War nurse, author of “My Life as with the 33rd United States Colored Troops.”
Annie Oakley (1860 – 1926) famous woman sharpshooter, star of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show
961) popular American painter, sold her first painting when she was 78 years old
Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (1864 – ) pen name “Nellie Bly” famous for her articles exposing the conditions in mental hospitals and her article about her trip around the world in 72 days
Marie Curie (1867 – 1934) famous scientist, won two Nobel prizes, famous for her work with her husband on radioactivity, discovered radium and polonium
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867 – 1957) American writer, author of “Little House on the Prairie” books
Gail Laughlin (1868 – 1952) attorney and Women’s Righs Activist
Mary Francis Winston Newton (1869 – 1959) first American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics
Ida B. Wells (1869 – 1932) African American editor and co-owner of the Memphis Free Speech, published “A Red Record” documenting the lynching of African Americans
Maria Montessori (1870 – 1952) first woman to graduate from the University of Rome’s Medical College, famous for her work in the education of young children
Mary McLeod Bethune (1875 – 1955) dedicated her life to improving educational opportunities for African Americans, founded school for African American girls
Mary Emily Sinclair (1878 – 1955) American mathematician, full professor at Oberlin College
Helen Keller (1880 – 1968) overcame blindness and deafness, graduated from Radcliffe, gave many speeches on behalf of the physically handicapped and wrote several books
Amelia Earhart (1897 – 1937?) first American woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone, disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while trying to fly around the world
Margaret Chase Smith (1897 – 1995) the first woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. In 1964 she became the first woman to be placed in nomination for the presidency of the United States at a major party convention.
Margaret Mead (1901 – 1979) American anthropologist, famous for her study of how culture influences personality, lived in Samoa and studied the people there
Clara McBride Hale (1905 – ) founder of Hale House, home for children’s with AIDS
Rachel Carson (1907 – 1964) marine biologist, science writer, her work helped ban a chemical called DDT that was killing millions of birds and fish
Rosa Parks (1913 – ) American civil rights leader, famous for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama
Mildred Ella “Babe” Didrikson Zaharias (1914 – 1956) won two gold medal in the 1932 Summer Olympics, later became a professional golfer and won the US Open three times
Pearl Bailey (1918 – 1990) Tony Award winning American singer, Goodwill Ambassador to the United Nations
Eunice Shriver (1921 – ) American famous for her work with Special Olympics
Betty Maria Tallchief (1925 – ) Native American, Prima Ballerina with the New York City Ballet, founded Chicago City Ballet, wife of George Balanchine
Coretta Scott King (1927 – ) carried on the fight for civil rights following the assassination of her husband, Dr. Martin Luther King
Shirley Temple Black (1928 – ) American child star and US Ambassador to Ghana
Joan Ganz Cooney (1929 – ) children’s television creator and producer, created “Sesame Street,” The Electric Company” and “3-2-1-Contact”
Sandra Day O’Connor (1930 – ) first woman to serve as associate justice on the US Supreme Court
Madeleine Albright (1937 – ) first woman to be appointed US Secretary of State
Wilma Rudolph (1940 – ) won three Gold Medals in track & field in the 1960 Summer Olympics in the 100-meter dash, 200-meter dash and 400-meter relay
Gabrielle Kirk Mcdonald (1944? – ) president of International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Wilma Mankiller (1945 – ) first woman to be named Chief of the Cherokee Nation
Sally K. Ride (1951 – ).first American woman in space
Mae C. Jemison (1956 – ) first female African American Astronaut and the first African American Woman in space
Jackie Joyner-Kersee (1962 – ) one of the world’s most famous female Olympic athletes, set World Records in heptathlon and the long jump
Kristi Yamaguchi (1971 – ) Olympic Gold Medal (1992) winning skater, in the same year she won the World Figure Skating Championship and United States Figure Skating Championship
Rebecca Lobo (1973 – ) first American Professional Basketball player
Katharine Graham (1917-2001) She is owner and publisher of “The Washington Post” and “Newsweek,” and one of the most influential women in the U.S.
Ruth Westheimer (1928-____) psychiatrist, author, lecturer. Dr. Ruth is a well known host of radio and TV shows on sexual relationships. (wonder what she has to say?)
Ellen Swallow Richards (1842-1911) chemist, ecologist. Her innovative studies of air, water, food created disciplines of sanitary engineering and home economics; first U.S. woman to earn B.A. in chemistry.
Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992) military leader, mathematician, educator. She was co- inventor of the computer language COBOL and coined the term “bug.” (I had the great pleasure of knowing and working with her.)
And here is just a tiny listing of many other women to whom we owe for more than we can ever pay back.
ARTISTS, PAINTERS, SCULPTORS, PHOTOGRAPHERS…
Abbott, Berenice (1898-1991) US photographer
Arbus, Diane (1923-1971) US photographer
Barry, Lynda (1956-____) US cartoonist, writer
Carr, Emily (1871-1945) Canadian artist, writer
Chanel, Coco (1883-1971) French fashion designer
Head, Edith (1898-1981) US costume designer
Hepworth, Dame Barbara (1903-1975) English sculptor
Kent, Corita (1918-1986) US graphic artist
Kollwitz, Kathe (1867-1945) German artist
Lin, Maya Ying (1959-____) US architect, sculptor
Moses, Grandma (1860-1961) US folk painter
Nevelson, Louise (1899-1988) US sculptor, painter
O’Keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986) US painter
Schiaparelli, Elsa (1890-1973) Italian-French designer
Signoret, Simone (1921-____) German actress
Vanderbilt, Gloria (1924-____) US designer, poet
BUSINESSWOMEN, ECONOMISTS, EXECUTIVES…
Arden, Elizabeth (1884-1966) US cosmetics executive
Ash, Mary Kay (1915-____) US businesswoman
Fields, Debbi (1956-____) US business executive
Fitz-Gibbon, Bernice (1895-1982) US advertising executive
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (1860-1935) US economist, lecturer, author, feminist
Graham, Katharine (1917-____) US newspaper executive
Heath, Jinger () US business executive
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss (1943-____) US businesswoman
Lauder, Estée (1908?-____) U.S. cosmetics executive
Myers, Joyce A. () US Business executive
Nelson, Paula (1945-____) US economist
Popcorn, Faith (1947-____) US management consultant
Porter, Sylvia (1913-1991) US journalist, finance expert
RoAne, Susan () US management consultant, writer
Roddick, Anita (1942-____) English businesswoman, social reformer
Rubinstein, Helena (1870-1965) US cosmetician, executive, philanthropist
Ward, Barbara (1914-1981) English economist, journalist, educator
Webb, Beatrice Potter (1858-1943) US social economist
COMPOSERS, CONDUCTORS, BALLET, OPERA, ETIQUETTE…
Boulanger, Nadia (1887-1979) French conductor, educator
Caldwell, Sarah (1924-____) US opera conductor, producer, impresario
Callas, Maria (1923-1977) US opera singer
Dunham, Katherine (1910-) US dancer, choreographer, anthropologist
Fonteyn, Margot (1919-____) English dancer
Graham, Martha (1894-1994) US dancer, choreographer
Horne, Marilyn (1934-____) US opera singer
Jamison, Judith (1943-____) US modern dancer
Lehmann, Lotte (1888-1976) German opera singer
Melba, Nellie (1861-1931) Australian opera singer
Norman, Jessye (1945-____) US operatic and concert singer
Pavlova, Anna (1881-1931) Russian ballerina
Post, Emily (1872-1960) US etiquette authority
Price, Leontyne (1927-____) US opera singer
Sills, Beverly (1929-____) US opera singer
Vanderbilt, Amy (1908-1974) US etiquette authority
DRAMATISTS, PLAYWRIGHTS, POETS…
Ackerman, Diane (1948-____) US poet, writer, social worker
Allen, Paula Gunn (1939-____) US American Indian {Pueblo/Sioux) poet, writer
Baillie, Joanna (1762-1851) Scottish poet, dramatist
Barbauld, Anna Letitia (1743-1825) English poet, writer
Behn, Aphra (1640-1689) English playwright, poet
Bennett, Gwendolyn (1902-1981) US poet, artist
Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979) US poet
Bogan, Louise A. (1897-1970) US lyric poet, critic
Bolton, Sarah Knowles (1841-1916) US poet, editor, social reformer
Bradstreet, Anne (1612?-1672) US poet
Brittain, Vera () English writer, poet, pacifist
Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855) English novelist, poet
Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917-____) US poet
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861) English poet
Clifton, Lucille (1936-____) US poet, educator
Coatsworth, Elizabeth (1893-1986) US poet, children’s author
Cook, Eliza (1818-1889) English poet
Cowley, Hannah (1743-1809) English playwright
Delaney, Shelagh (1939-____) English playwright
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) US poet
Dove, Rita (1952-____) US poet, educator
Duffy, Maureen (1933-____) English poet, writer
Dunbar-Nelson, Alice (1875-1935) US poet, essayist
Erdrich, Louise (1954-____) US-American Indian Chippewa writer, poet
Evans, Mari (1923-____) US poet, educator, editor
Fauset, Jessie Redmon (1882-1961) US poet, novelist
Giovanni, Nikki (1943-____) US author, poet
Griffin, Susan () US poet, writer, educator
Hale, Sarah Josepha (1788-1879) US journalist, author, poet
Hansberry, Lorraine (1930-1965) US playwright
Harper, Frances Watkins (1825-1911) US poet
Hellman, Lillian (1905-1987) US dramatist
Henley, Beth (1952-____) US dramatist
Hurston, Zora Neale (1903-1960) US dramatist, author
Johnson, Georgia Douglas (1866-1967) US poet
Kumin, Maxine (1925-____) US poet, novelist, essayist
Landon, Letitia (1802-1838) English poet, novelist
Lazarus, Emma (1849-1887) US poet
Levertov, Denise (1923-____) English-USA poet
Lorde, Audre (1934-1992) US poet, feminist
Lowell, Amy (1874-1925) US poet, critic, lecturer
McMillan, Terry (1951-____) US novelist, editor
Meynell, Alice (1847-1922) English poet, essayist
Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1882-1950) US author, poet
Miller, Alice Duer (1874-1942) US poet, author
Monroe, Harriet (1860-1936) US editor, poet
Moore, Marianne (1887-1972) US poet, editor
Norman, Marsha (1947-____) US dramatist
Norton, Caroline Sheridan (1808-1877) English poet, novelist
Proctor, Adelaide A. (1825-1864) English poet, activist
Rich, Adrienne (1929-____) US poet, educator
Richards, Beah (1926-____) US poet, playwright, actress
Richards, Mary Caroline () US poet, potter
Rossetti, Christina (1830-1894) English poet
Rukeyser, Muriel (1913-1980) US poet
Sachs, Nelly (1891-1970) German poet, dramatist
Sackville-West, Vita (1892-1962) English novelist, poet
Sanchez, Sonia (1934-____) US poet, playwright, educator
Sarton, May (1912-1995) US author, poet
Sexton, Anne (1928-1974) US poet
Shange, Ntozake (1948-____) US poet, playwright
Sitwell, Edith (1887-1964) English poet
Smith, Dodie (1896-1990) English dramatist
Smith, Stevie (1902-1971) English poet
Spencer, Anne (1882-1975) US poet, social worker
St. Teresa of Avila, (1515-1582) Spanish mystic, poet
Stuart, Janet Erskine () English poet
Swenson, May (1919-____) US poet
Taylor, Ann (and Jane)(1782-1866) English children’s author, poet
Teasdale, Sara (1884-1933) US author, poet
Wakoski, Diane () US poet
Wasserstein, Wendy (1950-____) US playwright
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler (1850-1919) US writer, poet, journalist
ACTRESSES, DANCERS, SINGERS, MUSICIANS, COMEDIANS, DIRECTORS, PRODUCERS…
Ace, Jane Sherwood (1905-1974) US actress, comedienne
Adler, Polly (1900-1953) US madam
Aimee, Anouk (1932-____) French actress
Allen, Gracie (1906-1964) US comedienne
Alley, Kirstie (1955-____) US actress
Anderson, Marian (1897-1993) US singer
Andrews, Julie (1935-____) English actress, singer, author
Annis, Francesca (1944-____) English actress
Ashley, Elizabeth (1941-____) US actress
Astor, Mary (1906-1987) US actress
Bacall, Lauren (1924-____) US actress
Baez, Joan (1941-____) US folksinger, political activist
Bailey, Pearl (1918-1990) US singer, actress
Baker, Josephine (1906-1975) French dancer, singer, entertainer
Ball, Lucille (1911-1989) US comic actress
Bankhead, Tallulah (1903-1968) US actress
Bardot, Brigitte (1934-____) French actress
Barr, Roseanne (1952-____) US actress, comedian
Barrymore, Ethel (1879-1959) US actress
Baxter, Anne (1923-87) US actress
Belmont, Eleanor Robson (1879-1979) English-USA actor, writer, nurse
Bergen, Candice (1946-____) US actress, photojournalist
Bergman, Ingrid (1915-1982) Swedish actress
Bernhard, Sandra (1955-____) US actress, commedienne
Bernhardt, Sarah (1844-1923) French actress
Bisset, Jacqueline (1944-____) English actress
Black, Shirley Temple (1928-____) US actress, diplomat
Boosler, Elayne (1952-____) US comedian
Booth, Shirley (1907-____) US actress
Brice, Fanny (1891-1951) US singing comedienne
Brooks, Louise (1906-1985) US actress
Brophy, Brigid (1929-____) English-Irish writer, novelist, playwright
Burnett, Carol (1933-____) US actress, comedienne
Campbell, Mrs. Patrick (1865-1940) English actress
Carpenter, Karen (1950-1983) US singer
Carter, Betty (1929-1998) US jazz singer
Cattrall, Kim (1956-____) English actress
Chaplin, Geraldine (1944-____) US actress
Chase, Ilka (1905-1978) US actress, writer
Cher, (1946-____) US singer, actress
Childress, Alice (1920-1994) US playwright, actress, director
Colbert, Claudette (1903-1996) French actress
Collins, Joan (1933-____) English-US actress
Collins, Judy (1939-____) US folksinger, film maker
Comeaux, Amie (1976-1997) US country singer
Conn, Didi (1951-____) US actress
Crawford, Joan (1908-1977) US actress, dancer
Davis, Bette (1908-1989) US actress
Davis, Geena (1957-____) US actress
Day, Doris (1924-____) US singer, actress
DeMille, Agnes George (1905-____) US dancer, choreographer
Dee, Ruby (1923-____) US actress
Didion, Joan (1934-____) US screenwriter, author
Dietrich, Marlene (1901-1992) German-USA actress, singer
Diller, Phyllis (1917-____) US comedienne
Douglas, Helen Gahagan (1900-1980) US actress, opera singer, politician
Draper, Ruth (1884-1956) US actress
Dressler, Marie (1869-1934) Canadian-USA actress
Duncan, Isadora (1877-1927) US dancer
Duse, Eleonora (1858-1924) Italian actress
Etting, Ruth (1897-1978) US singer
Field, Sally (1946-____) US actress
Fisher, Carrie (1956-____) US actress, author
Fiske, Minnie Maddern (1865-1932) US actress
Fitzgerald, Ella (1917-1996) US jazz singer
Fonda, Jane (1937-____) US actress, political activist
Fontanne, Lynn (1887-1983) US actress
Franklin, Aretha (1942-____) US Rhythm and Blues singer
Gabor, Zsa Zsa (1919-____) Hungarian actress
Garbo, Greta (1905-1990) Swedish actress
Gardner, Ava (1922-1990) US actress
Garland, Judy (1922-1969) US actress, singer
Gingold, Hermione (1897-1987) English actress
Gish, Dorothy (1898-1968) US actress
Gish, Lillian (1893-1993) US entertainer
Goldberg, Whoopi (1949-____) US actress, comedienne
Gordon, Ruth (1896-1985) US actress
Grable, Betty (1916-1973) US actress
Graham, Virginia (1912-1998) US actress, TV personality
Harlow, Jean (1911-1937) US actress
Hawn, Goldie (1945-____) US actress, comedienne, producer
Hayes, Helen (1900-1993) US actress
Henner, Marilu (1952-____) US actress, health promotor, author
Hepburn, Katharine (1907-____) US actress
Holiday, Billie (1915-1959) US singer
Hopper, Hedda (1890-1966) US journalist, actress
Horne, Lena (1917-____) US singer, actress
Houston, Whitney (1963-____) US singer
Hunter, Alberta (1895-1988) US blues singer
Hurst, Fannie (1889-1968) US screenwriter, novelist, dramatist
Hutton, Betty (1921-____) US singer, dancer, actress
Ireland, Kathy (1963-____) US model
Jackson, Glenda (1936-____) US actress
Jackson, Mahalia (1911-1972) US gospel singer
Jones, Shirley (1934-____) US actress, singer
Joplin, Janis (1943-1970) US singer
Judd, Naomi (1946-____) US singer
Kerr, Deborah (1921-____) Scottish actress
Lee, Gypsy Rose (1914-1970) US entertainer
Lillie, Beatrice (1898-1989) English comedienne
Lloyd, Marie (1870-1922) English singer
Long, Shelley (1950-____) US actress
Loren, Sophia (1934-____) Italian actress
Lynn, Loretta (1935-____) US singer, songwriter
Mabley, Jackie “Moms” (1894-1975) US comedienne
MacLaine, Shirley (1934-____) US actress, dancer, writer, metaphysician
Madonna, (1958-____) US singer, actress
Main, Marjorie (1890-1975) US actress
Makeba, Miriam (1932-____) South African singer
McEntire, Reba (1954-____) US country singer
Merman, Ethel (1909-1984) US singer, actor
Midler, Bette (1945-____) US singer, actress
Minnelli, Liza (1946-____) US actress, singer, dancer
Mitchell, Joni (1943-____) Canadian singer, songwriter
Monroe, Marilyn (1926-1962) US actress
Moore, Mary Tyler (1936-____) US actress, humanitarian
Moreau, Jeanne (1928-____) French actress
Neal, Patricia (1926-____) US actress
Ono, Yoko (1933-____) US artist, musician
Paglia, Camille (1947-____) US actress, writer
Parent, Gail (1940- ____) US scenarist
Parton, Dolly (1946-____) US singer, songwriter, actress
Pearl, Minnie (1912-1996) US comedienne
Pfeiffer, Michelle (1958-____) US actress
Pickford, Mary (1894-1979) Canadian actress
Radner, Gilda (1946-1989) US actress, comedienne
Rainey, Ma (1886-1939) US Blues singer
Rashad, Phylicia (1948-____) US actress, Equal Rights activist
Reagon, Bernice Johnson (1942-____) US musician, museum director
Reed, Donna (1921-1986) US actress
Ritter, Thelma (1905-1969) US actress
Rivers, Joan (1937-____) US comedian, TV personality
Roberts, Julia (1967-____) US actress
Ronstadt, Linda (1946-____) US singer
Ross, Diana (1944-____) US singer, actress
Rudner, Rita (1956-____) US comedienne, essayist, actress
Russell, Rosalind (1911-1976) US actress, philanthropist
Schell, Maria (1926-____) Austrian actress
Scott, Hazel (1920-1981) Trinidad-USA pianist, singer, writer
Seymour, Jane (1951-____) English actress
Shore, Dinah (1917-1994) US singer, actress
Siddons, Sarah (1755-1831) English actress, sculptor
Simone, Nina (1933-____) US Jazz singer, pianist, composer, songwriter
Skinner, Cornelia Otis (1901-1979) US actress, author
Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) US blues singer, songwriter
Smith, Maggie (1934-____) US actress
Smith, Patti (1946-____) US rock singer, poet
Stanwyck, Barbara (1907-1990) US actress
Stone, Sharon (1958-____) US actress
Streep, Meryl (1949-____) US actress
Streisand, Barbra (1942-____) US actress, singer
Swanson, Gloria (1897-1983) US actor, producer, business executive
Swit, Loretta (1937-____) US actress
Taylor, Elizabeth (1932-____) English actress
Terry, Ellen (1847-1928) British actress
Thomas, Marlo (1938-____) US actress
Tomlin, Lily (1939-____) US actress, comedienne
Tucker, Sophie (1884-1966) US singer
Turner, Kathleen (1954-____) US actress
Turner, Lana (1920-1995) US actress
Turner, Tina (1938-____) US singer
Ullmann, Liv (1938-____) Norwegian actress, humanitarian
Vega, Suzanne (1959-____) US singer, songwriter
Vera-Ellen, (1926-1981) US actress
Wagner, Jane (1935-____) US humorist, writer, director
Welch, Raquel (1940-____) US actress, model
West, Mae (1892-1980) US actress
Winfrey, Oprah (1954-____) US TV personality, actress
Winger, Debra (1955-____) US actress
Winters, Shelley (1922-____) US actress
Woodward, Joanne (1930-____) US actress
PHYSICIANS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, PSYCHIATRIST, SURGEONS…
Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett (1836-1917) English physician
Barton, Clara (1821-1912) US humanitarian
Blackwell, Elizabeth (1821-1910) US physician, author
Blackwell, Emily (1826-1910) US physician, author
Brothers, Joyce (1928-____) US psychologist, author
Calderone, Mary Steichen (1904-1998) US physician, author
Carter, Lillian (1898-1983) US nurse, first mother
Davis, Adelle (1904-1974) US nutritionist, author
Delany, Annie Elizabeth (1891-1995) US dentist
Deutsch, Helene (1884-1982) US psychoanalyst
Field, Joanna (1900-____) English psychologist
Fisher, M. F. K. (1908-1992) U.S. culinary expert, author
Hinkle, Beatrice (1874-1953) US psychiatrist
Horney, Karen (1885-1952) US psychoanalyst, writer
Kenny, Elizabeth (1886-1952) Australian nurse
Kubler-Ross, Elizabeth (1926-____) Swiss-USA psychiatrist
Ramey, Estelle (1917- ____) US physician, physiologist
Singer, June () US doctor
Suyin, Han (1917-____) Chinese writer, physician
Westheimer, Ruth (1928-____) German-born USA psychiatrist, author, lecturer
SCIENTISTS, INVENTORS, EXPLORERS, AVIATORS, ASTRONAUTS, ECOLOGIST…
Benedict, Ruth (1887-1948) US anthropologist
Carson, Rachel (1907-1964) US biologist, writer
Curie, Marie (1867-1934) Polish-French chemist
Earhart, Amelia (1898-1937) US aviatrix
Eberhardt, Isabelle (1877-1904) Russian-born traveler
Markham, Beryl (1902-1986) English aviator
McClintock, Barbara (1902-____) US scientist
Mead, Margaret (1901-1978) US anthropologist, author
Mitchell, Maria (1818-1889) US astronomer, educator
Moodie, Susanna (1803-1885) English-born Canadian pioneer
Richards, Ellen Swallow (1842-1911) US chemist, ecologist
Tannen, Deborah (1951-____) US sociolinguist, writer
Winnemucca, Sarah (c.1842-1891) Indian scout, activist
Yalow, Rosalyn Sussman (1921-____) US medical physicist
NOVELISTS, SHORT-STORY, AND SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS…
Alcott, Louisa May (1832-1888) US novelist
Allingham, Margery (1904-1966) English detective story writer
Ashford, Daisy (1881-1972) English novelist
Asquith, Margot (1864-1945) English author
Atwood, Margaret (1939-____) Canadian novelist, poet
Austen, Jane (1775-1817) English novelist
Bagnold, Enid (1889-1981) English novelist, playwright
Baldwin, Faith (1893-1978) US novelist
Bambara, Toni Cade (1939-1995) US writer
Barnes, Djuna (1892-1982) US novelist, poet, illustrator, dramatist
Barney, Natalie Clifford (1876-1972) US author
Baum, Vicki (1888-1960) Austrian-USA novelist
Bibesco, Elizabeth Asquith ()
Blume, Judy (1938-____) US novelist, writer
Bowen, Elizabeth (1899-1973) Irish author
Bradley, Marion Zimmer (1930- ____) US novelist
Brodie, Fawn M. (1915-1981) US author
Bronte, Anne (1820-1849) English novelist, poet
Bronte, Emily (1818-1848) English novelist
Brown, Rita Mae (1944-____) US writer, playwright
Buck, Pearl (1892-1973) US author
Caldwell, Taylor (1900-1985) English novelist
Carter, Angela (1940-1992) English novelist, short-story writer
Cartland, Barbara (1901-____) English novelist
Cather, Willa (1876-1947) US novelist, short-story writer
Child, Lydia M. (1802-1880) US author
Christie, Agatha (1890-1976) English author, dramatist
Colette, (1873-1954) French author
Compton-Burnett, Ivy (1892-1969) English novelist
Craik, Dinah Mulock (1826-1887) English novelist
Dillard, Annie (1945-____) US author
Dinesen, Isak (1885-1962) Danish short-story writer
Drabble, Margaret (1939-____) English novelist, critic
DuMaurier, Daphne (1907-1989) English novelist
Durant, Ariel (1898-1981) US author
Duras, Marguerite (1914-____) French novelist, playwright
Edgeworth, Maria (1767-1849) English children’s author
Eliot, George (1819-1880) English novelist
Ephron, Nora (1941-____) US author, screenwriter
Ferber, Edna (1885-1968) US novelist
Field, Rachel (1894-1942) US children’s author
Figes, Eva (1932-____) German-born English writer
Fitzgerald, Zelda (1900-1948) US writer, celebrity relative
Frame, Janet (1924-____) New Zealander novelist, short-story writer, poet
Gaskell, Elizabeth (1810-1865) English novelist, short-story writer
Gilman, Dorothy (1923-____) US mystery novelist
Ginzburg, Natalia (1916-1991) Italian author
Glasgow, Ellen (1874-1945) US author
Glyn, Elinor (1864-1943) English novelist, short-story writer
Godden, Rumer (1907-____) English novelist
Godwin, Gail (1937-____) US novelist, short-story writer, journalist
Gordimer, Nadine (1923-____) South African novelist
Guest, Judith (1936-____) US novelist
Halsey, Margaret (1910-____) US author
Hazzard, Shirley (1931-____) Australian novelist
Ingelow, Jean (1820-1897) English novelist
Jackson, Helen Hunt (1830-1885) US novelist, poet, essayist
Jackson, Shirley (1919-1965) US novelist
James, P. D. (1920-____) English mystery novelist
Janowitz, Tama (1957-_____) US novelist
Jewett, Sarah Orne (1848-1909) US author
Jones, Gayl (1949-____) US short story writer, novelist
Jong, Erica (1942-____) US author, poet
Kingsolver, Barbara (1955-____) US novelist
Kingston, Maxine Hong (1940-____) US author
Konigsburg, E. L. (1930-____) US children’s author
Krantz, Judith (1928-____) US novelist
L’Engle, Madeleine (1918-____) US novelist
Larsen, Nella (1891-1964) US novelist
Le Guin, Ursula (1929-____) US science-fiction writer
Lee, Harper (1926-____) US novelist
Loos, Anita (1893-1981) US screenwriter, dramatist, author
Mansfield, Katherine (1888-1923) New Zealander author
McCarthy, Mary (1912-1989) US novelist, critic
McCullers, Carson (1917-1967) US novelist, short-story writer
McKillip, Patricia (1948-____) US science fiction writer
Metalious, Grace (1924-1964) US novelist
Mitchell, Margaret (1900-1949) US novelist
Mitchison, Naomi (1897-1999) Scottish novelist
Mitford, Nancy (1904-1973) English novelist
Montagu, Mary Wortley (1689-1762) English author
Morrison, Toni (1931-____) US novelist
Murdoch, Iris (1919-1999) Irish author
Naylor, Gloria (1950-____) US novelist, educator
Nin, Anais (1903-1977) US author
Norris, Kathleen (1880-1960) US novelist
O’Brien, Edna (1932-____) Irish novelist, pacifist
O’Connor, Flannery (1925-1964) US author
Oates, Joyce Carol (1938-____) US novelist, poet, educator
Olsen, Tillie (1912-____) US novelist
Orczy, Emmuska (1865-1947) Hungarian-born British novelist
Ouida, (1839-1908) English novelist, social critic
Ozick, Cynthia (1928-___) US novelist, short-story writer
Paterson, Katherine () US children’s writer
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart () US novelist
Plath, Sylvia () US novelist, poet
Porter, Eleanor H. (1868-1920) US novelist
Porter, Katherine Anne (1894-1980) US novelist, short-story writer
Potter, Beatrix (1866-1943) English author
Rand, Ayn (1905-1982) US author
Renault, Mary (1905-1983) English African novelist
Rhys, Jean (1894-1979) English novelist
Rice, Anne (1941-____) US novelist
Richardson, Dorothy Miller (1873-1957) English novelist
Rinehart, Mary Roberts (1876-1958) US novelist, playwright
Ripley, Alexandra (1934-____) US novelist
Rossner, Judith (1935-____) US novelist
Rule, Jane (1931-____) US novelist, critic
Sagan, Francoise (1935-____) French novelist
Sand, George (1804-1876) French author
Sayers, Dorothy L. (1893-1957) English author
Schreiner, Olive (1855-1920) South African novelist
Seredy, Kate (1899-1975) Hungarian children’s writer, illustrator
Sewell, Anna (1820-1878) English novelist
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851) English author
Sherwood, Mary Martha (1775-1851) English children’s author
Smith, Betty (1896-1972) US novelist
Smith, Lillian (1897-1966) US novelist, educator
Spark, Muriel (1918-____) Scottish novelist, satirist
Spyri, Johanna (1827-1901) Swiss novelist
Stafford, Jean (1915-1979) US short-story writer, novelist
Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946) US author
Stewart, Mary (1916-____) English novelist
Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896) US author
Swetchine, Anne Sophie (1782-1857) Russian-French writer
Tan, Amy (1952-____) US novelist
Tremain, Rose (1942-____) English novelist, playwright
Tyler, Anne (1941-____) US novelist, short-story writer
Viorst, Judith (1931-____) US novelist, poet
Walker, Alice (1944-____) US author
Warner, Susan (1819-1885) US novelist
Webb, Mary (1881-1927) English novelist
Weldon, Fay (1931-____) English novelist
Wells, Carolyn (1869-1942) US author
Welty, Eudora (1909-____) US author
West, Jessamyn (1902-1984) US author
Wharton, Edith (1862-1937) US novelist, short-story writer
Yezierska, Anzia (1885-1970) US novelist
Yourcenar, Marguerite (1903-1987) Belgian-USA novelist, essayist
von Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie (1830-1916) Austrian novelist
POLITICAL LEADERS, RULERS, STATESWOMEN, GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, DIPLOMATS…
Adams, Abigail (1744-1818) US first lady
Alliluyeva, Svetlana (1926-____) Russian-USA political celebrity
Antoinette, Marie (1755-1795) Austrian ruler
Aquino, Corazon (1933-____) Filipino political leader
Astor, Nancy (1879-1964) English stateswoman
Berry, Mary Frances (1938-____) US government official, author
Bush, Barbara (1925-____) US first lady
Carter, Rosalynn (1927-____) US First Lady
Catherine the Great, (1729-1796) Russian empress
Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame () Chinese sociologist
Chisholm, Shirley (1924-____) US politician, author
Christina of Sweden, (1626-1689) Swedish ruler
Churchill, Jennie Jerome (1854-1921) US socialite
Clinton, Hillary Rodham (1947-____) US first lady, author, lawyer
Devlin, Bernadette (1947-____) Irish politician
Dole, Elizabeth (1936-____) US government official, business executive
Elizabeth I, (1533-1603) English ruler
Elizabeth II, (1926-____) British ruler
Feinstein, Dianne (1933-____) US politician
Fenwick, Millicent (1910-1992) US diplomat, congresswoman
Ferraro, Geraldine (1935-____) US politician
Ford, Betty (1918-____) US First Lady, dancer, philanthropist
Gandhi, Indira (1917-1984) Indian political leader
Grasso, Ella T. (1919-1981) US politician
Griffiths, Martha Wright (1912-____) US politician
Hufstedler, Shirley (1925-____) US government official
Jackson, Rachel Donaldson (1767-1828) US first lady
Johnson, Lady Bird (1912-____) US first lady
Jordan, Barbara (1936-____) US lawyer, educator, politician
Kirkpatrick, Jeane (1926-____) US diplomat
Lenclos, Ninon de (1620-1705) French society figure, courtesan
Lincoln, Mary Todd (1818-1882) US first lady
Mankiller, Wilma Pearl (1945-____) US-American Indian Cherokee chief
Marcos, Imelda (1929-____) Filipino first lady
Meir, Golda (1898-1978) Israeli political leader
Mikulski, Barbara (1936-____) US politician
Moseley-Braun, Carol (1947-____) US politican, lawyer
Nixon, Pat (1912-1993) US first lady
Norton, Eleanor Holmes (1937-____) US government official
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy (1929-1994) US first lady
Peron, Eva (1919-1952) Argentine political leader
Priest, Ivy Baker (1905-1975) US government official
Princess Anne, (1950-____) British royalty
Queen Mother Elizabeth, (1900-____) British royalty
Queen Victoria, (1819-1901) British royalty
Reagan, Nancy (1921-____) US first lady
Richards, Ann (1933-____) US politician, governor
Robinson, Mary (1944-____) Irish political leader
Roosevelt, Eleanor (1884-1962) US first lady, social reformer
Ruckelshaus, Jill (1937-____) US government official, lecturer
Schroeder, Patricia (1940-____) US political leader
Smith, Margaret Chase (1897- 1995) US politician
Summerskill, Edith Clara (1901-1980) English politician, physician, author
Thatcher, Margaret (1925-____) English political leader
Washington, Martha (1732-____) US First Lady
de Valois, Marguerite () French princess, scholar
REFORMERS, REVOLUTIONARIES, ABOLITIONISTS, CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS, ACTIVISTS, ANARCHISTS…
Addams, Jane (1869-1935) US social worker, suffragist
Andrus, Ethel Percy (1884-1967) US social activist
Anthony, Susan B. (1820-1906) US social reformer, suffragist
Astell, Mary (1666?-1731) English feminist, writer
Austin, Mary (1868-1934) US writer, suffragist
Baker, Ella (1903-1986) US civil rights activist
Blackwell, Antoinette Brown (1825-1921) US abolitionist, feminist, clergy
Chapman, Maria Weston (1806-1885) US abolitionist, editor
Davis, Angela (1944-____) US political activist, revolutionary, author
Day, Dorothy (1897-1980) US editor, humanitarian, women’s rights advocate
Edelman, Marian Wright (1939-____) US social reformer, lawyer, author
Faludi, Susan (1959-____) US writer, feminist
Farnham, Eliza Wood Burhans (1815-1864) US social reformer, lecturer
Friedan, Betty (1921-____) US feminist, activist, writer
Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850) US critic, social reformer, writer
Goldman, Emma (1869-1940) US anarchist
Greer, Germaine (1939-____) English reformer, author, educator
Grimke, Angelina (1805-1879) US abolitionist, women’s rights advocate
Hale, Clara McBride (1905-1992) US social reformer
Hamer, Fannie Lou (1917-1977) US activist
Height, Dorothy (1912-____) US activist
Howe, Julia Ward (1819-1910) US social reformer
Huerta, Dolores (1930-____) US Chicana activist, labor leader
Johnson, Sonia () US activist, religious leader
Jones, Mary Harris “Mother” (1860-1930) US labor organizer
Kempton, Sally (1943-____) US writer, feminist
Key, Ellen (1849-1926) Swedish writer, feminist
King, Coretta Scott (1927-____) US civil rights activist
Kuhn, Maggie (1905-1995) US activist, social worker
Lockwood, Belva (1830-1917) US social reformer, lawyer
Luce, Clare Boothe (1905-1987) US dramatist, author, politician, diplomat
Mott, Lucretia (1793-1880) US social reformer
Nation, Carry (1846-1911) US social reformer
Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910) English nurse, reformer
Pankhurst, Emmeline (1858-1928) English suffragist
Parks, Rosa (1913-____) US civil rights leader
Roland, Jeanne-Marie (1754-1793) French revolutionary
Rose, Ernestine L. (1810-1892) US activist
Ruffin, Josephine St. Pierre (1842-1924) US suffragist
Russell, Dora () English writer, activist
Sanger, Margaret (1883-1966) US nurse, social reformer
Scott-Maxwell, Florida () US writer, suffragist, psychologist
Smith, Hannah Whitall (1832-1911) US evangelist, reformer, suffragist, author
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (1815-1902) US social reformer, feminist
Steinem, Gloria (1934-____) US feminist, journalist, lecturer
Stone, Lucy (1818-1893) US suffragist, feminist
Terrell, Mary Church (1863-1954) US social reformer
Truth, Sojourner (1797?-1883) US abolitionist, reformer
Tubman, Harriet (c.1820-1913) US abolitionist, emancipator
Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelly (1759-1797) English writer, women’s rights activist
Woodhull, Victoria Claffin (1838-1927) US reformer
PHILOSOPHERS, RELIGIOUS LEADERS, MORALISTS, THEOLOGIANS, MISSIONARIES, PHILANTHROPISTS…
Bakker, Tammy Faye (1942-____) US evangelist
Bethune, Mary McLeod (1875-1955) US educator, writer
Daly, Mary (1928-____) US theologian
Eddy, Mary Baker (1821-1910) US religious leader, writer
Fry, Elizabeth (1780-1845) English social reformer, philanthropist
Heyward, Carter () US Episcopal priest
Hutchinson, Anne (1591-1643) US religious leader
Langer, Suzanne K. (1895-1985) US philosopher
Martineau, Harriet (1802-1876) English social reformer, writer
Mcpherson, Aimee Semple (1890-1944) US religious leader, evangelist
Pankhurst, Sylvia (1882-1960) English suffragist
Rankin, Jeannette (1880-1973) US suffragist, politician
Shinn, Florence Scovel () US illustrator, metaphysicist
Teresa, Mother (1910-1997) Albanian nun, missionary
Waddles, Charleszetta (1912-____) US nun, writer
Weil, Simone (1909-1943) French philosopher
Williamson, Marianne (1952-____) US lecturer, author
HISTORIANS, LAWYERS, JURISTS, EDUCATORS AND OTHER SCHOLARS…
Abzug, Bella (1920-____) US lawyer, politician
Adler, Freda (1934-____) US educator, criminal justice specialist
Arendt, Hannah (1906-1975) German-USA political scientist
Ashton-Warner, Sylvia (1908-1984) New Zealander educator, writer, novelist, poet
Beard, Mary Ritter (1876-1958) US historian, writer
Beecher, Catharine Esther (1800-1878) US educator, author
Bird, Rose Elizabeth (1936-____) US justice
Burroughs, Nannie (1883-1961) US educator
Cole, Johnnetta Betsch (1936-____) US educator, anthropologist, college president
Cooper, Anna Julia (1859-1964) US educator, feminist, writer
Davis, Elizabeth Gould (1910-1974) US librarian, writer
DeLuzy, Dorothée (1747-1830) French actress
Deffand, Marie Anne du (1697-1780) French intellectual
Delany, Sarah Louise (1889-199?) US educator
Grimke, Charlotte Forten (1837-1914) US educator, diarist
Hamilton, Edith (1867-1963) US writer, educator
Harrison, Jane () English classical scholar, writer, archeologist
Hillesum, Etty (1914-1943) Dutch lawyer, writer
Le Sueur, Meridel () US writer, historian
LeTendre, Mary Jean (1948-____) US educator, government official
Lyon, Mary (1797-1849) US educator
Marshall, Paule (1929-____) US writer, educator
McAuliffe, Christa (1948-1986) US teacher
Montagu, Elizabeth (1720-1800) English intellectual, conversationalist
Montessori, Maria (1870-1952) Italian educator, reformer
O’Connor, Sandra Day (1930-____) US supreme court justice
Paul, Alice (1885-1977) US lawyer
Perkins, Frances (1880-1965) US educator, government official
Plato, Ann (1820?-___?) US educator
Putnam, Emily James (1865-1944) US educator
Ravitch, Diane () US educator
Rosen, Marjorie (1942- ____) US film historian
Spacks, Patricia Meyer (1929-____) US literature scholar, writer
Stael, Anne Louise Germaine de (1766-1817) French-Swiss woman of letters, novelist
Sullivan, Anne (1866-1936) US educator
Thomas, Martha Carey (1857-1935) US educator, feminist
Tuchman, Barbara (1912-1989) US historian
Walker, Margaret (1915-____) US writer, educator
Weisstein, Naomi () US psychology professor, activist
Willard, Emma Hart (1787-1870) US educator
de Maintenon, Francoise d’Aubigne (1635-1719) French writer, consort
hooks, bell (1952?-____) US educator, feminist theorist, poet
NON-FICTION WRITERS, PUBLISHERS, EDITORS, JOURNALISTS, CRITICS, BROADCAST JOURNALISTS…
Alexander, Shana (1925-____) US news commentator
Anderson, Margaret (1886-1973) US editor
Angelou, Maya (1928-____) US actress, author
Anzaldua, Gloria Evangelina (1942-____) US Tejana-Chicana poet
Baldwin, Christina () US writer
Baldwin, Monica (1896-1975) English writer
Ballantyne, Sheila () US writer
Barr, Amelia (1831-1919) US author, journalist
Barrett, Rona (1936-____) US journalist
Battelle, Phyllis (1922-____) US journalist
Beauvoir, Simone de (1908-1986) French writer
Bengis, Ingrid () US writer
Blavatsky, Helena Petrova (1831-1891) Russian author, translator, theosophist
Blessington, Lady Marguerite (1789-1849) English socialite, writer
Bombeck, Erma (1927-1996) US journalist, author, humorist
Boom, Corrie Ten (1892-1983) Dutch evangelist
Bourke-White, Margaret (1904-1971) US photojournalist
Bowen, Catherine Drinker (1897-1973) US writer
Brookner, Anita (1928-____) English art historian, writer
Brown, Helen Gurley (1922-____) US editor, author
Bunch, Charlotte (1944-____) US feminist theorist, lecturer, writer
Burney, Fanny (1752-1840) English novelist, letter writer
Burton, Isabel (1831-1896) English traveler, author
Caine, Lynn (1927-1987) US writer, lecturer
Calisher, Hortense (1911-____) US writer
Carpenter, Liz (1920-____) US writer, feminist
Child, Julia (1912-____) US chef, author, TV personality
Chopin, Kate (1851-1904) US author
Collange, Christiane () French writer
Conran, Shirley (1932-____) English journalist, designer
Crist, Judith (1922-____) US film critic
Davis, Rebecca Harding (1831-1910) US author, journalist, critic
Decter, Midge (1927-____) US journalist, writer
Deming, Barbara (1917-____) US author, pacifist, political activist
Dix, Dorothy (1870-1951) US journalist, writer
Dowling, Colette (1938-____) US writer
Drew, Elizabeth (1935-____) US journalist, commentator
Duncan, Sara Jeannette (1861-1922) US writer
Ehrenreich, Barbara (1941-____) US writer
Ehrlich, Gretel () US writer
Ellerbee, Linda (1944-____) US broadcast journalist
Fallaci, Oriana (1930-____) Italian writer, journalist
Fishel, Elizabeth () US writer
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield (1879-1958) US author, essayist
Flanner, Janet (1892-1978) US journalist
Frank, Anne (1929-1945) German-Dutch diarist
French, Marilyn (1929-____) US writer
Fripp, Patricia () English-USA business speaker, author
Gellhorn, Martha (1908-____) US journalist, author
George, Phyllis (1949-____) US sportscaster
Gerould, Katherine F. (1879-1944) US writer
Geyer, Georgie Anne (1935-____) US columnist, journalist
Gilligan, Carol () US writer, researcher
Goodman, Ellen (1941-____) US journalist
Graham, Sheilah (1904-1988) US columnist
Hamilton, Gail (1833-1896) US writer
Hardwick, Elizabeth (1916-____) US author, critic
Harrison, Barbara Grizzuti () US writer, publicist
Haskell, Molly () US writer, film critic
Heilbrun, Carolyn (1926-____) US writer, educator
Heimel, Cynthia () US writer, humorist
Holmes, Marjorie () US writer
Howard, Jane (1935-1996) US journalist, writer
Hulme, Kathryn (1900-1981) US writer
Huxtable, Ada Louise (1921-____) US critic, editor
Jacobs, Harriet Ann (1813-1897) US diarist, writer
Jameson, Anna (1794-1860) Irish author, art critic
Janeway, Elizabeth (1913-____) US writer
Johnson, Pamela Hansford (1912-1981) English critic, author
Johnston, Jill (1929-____) US journalist, critic
Jordan, June (1936-____) US writer, poet, journalist
Kael, Pauline (1919-____) US critic
Keller, Helen (1880-1968) US author, lecturer
Kennedy, Rose (1890-1995) US author, political relative
Kerr, Jean (1923-____) US humorist, author, playwright
Kincaid, Jamaica (1949-____) Antigua-US journalist
King, Florence (1936-____) US writer
Koller, Alice () US writer
Konner, Joan () US journalist, college administrator
LaFollette, Suzanne (1895?-1983) US writer, editor
Landers, Ann (1918-____) US advice columnist
Lawrenson, Helen (1904-1982) US editor
LeShan, Eda (1922-____) US writer
Lebowitz, Fran (1950-____) US journalist
Lerner, Harriet () US therapist, writer
Lessing, Doris (1919-____) English author, playwright
Lilly, Doris (1926-1991) US journalist, writer
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow (1906-____) US writer
Little, Mary Wilson () US writer
Livermore, Mary Ashton (1820-1905) US journalist, social reformer, lecturer
Livingstone, Belle (1875-1957) US writer, adventurer
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt (1884-1980) US author, socialite, celebrity relative
Luxemburg, Rosa (1871-1919) Polish German socialist, writer
Mannes, Marya (1904-1990) US journalist, writer
Martin, Judith (1938-____) US author, journalist
Maxwell, Elsa (1883-1963) US writer, TV hostess, columnist
McGinley, Phyllis (1905-1978) US author, poet
McLaughlin, Mignon () US journalist, author
Millett, Kate (1934-____) US writer, sculptor, educator
Mitford, Jessica (1917-1996) English-USA journalist
More, Hannah (1745-1833) English writer
Morgan, Robin (1941-____) US editor, feminist, writer
Morris, Jan (1926-____) English writer, journalist
Necker, Suzanne Curchod (1739-1794) French writer
Noonan, Peggy (1950-____) US writer
Oliphant, Margaret (1828-1897) Scottish writer
Paddleford, Clementine (1900-1967) US journalist, editor
Paley, Grace (1922-____) US writer
Parker, Dorothy (1893-1967) US author, poet, journalist, humorist
Peter, Irene () US writer
Peterson, Virgilia (1904-1966) US writer, TV personality
Piercy, Marge (1936-____) US writer
Pogrebin, Letty Cottin () US writer, editor, columnist
Quindlen, Anna (1953-____) US journalist, novelist
Quinn, Jane Bryant (1939-____) US journalist
Repplier, Agnes (1858-1950) US essayist
Rowland, Helen () English-USA writer
Savant, Marilyn vos (1946-____) US columnist, writer
Sawyer, Diane (1945-____) US broadcast journalist
Seton, Anya (1916- ____) US writer
Sevigne, Marie de (1626-1696) French diarist
Sheehy, Gail (1937-____) US writer, journalist, editor
Sinetar, Marsha () US writer
Smiley, Jane (1949-____) US writer
Smith, Barbara (1846-____) US editor, writer
Smith, Liz (1923-____) US columnist
Sontag, Susan (1933-____) US author, critic
St. Johns, Adela Rogers (1894-1988) US journalist
Stark, Freya () French-English travel writer
Taylor, Susan L. (1946-____) US journalist
Thompson, Dorothy (1894-1961) US journalist, writer
Trilling, Diane (1905-1996) US author, critic
Ueland, Brenda (1891-1986) US writer
Uhnak, Dorothy (1933-____) US novelist, writer
Van Buren, Abigail (1918-____) US journalist
Van Horne, Harriet (1920-____) US columnist
Vreeland, Diana (1903-1989) US fashion editor
Walters, Barbara (1931-____) US broadcast journalist
West, Rebecca (1892-1983) Irish author, journalist
Whitehorn, Katharine (1928-____) English writer, essayist
Wilder, Laura Ingalls (1867-1957) US author
Wolf, Naomi (1963-____) US writer
Woodman, Marion (1928-____) Canadian analyst, writer
Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941) English author, critic
de Girardin, Delphine (1804-1855) French novelist, poet
SPORTS PERSONALITIES, COACHES…
Alcott, Amy Strum (1956-____) US golfer
Berg, Patty (1918-____) US golfer
Blair, Bonnie (1964-____) US speedskater
Evert Lloyd, Chris (1954-____) US tennis player
Gibson, Althea (1927-____) US tennis player
Joyner, Florence Griffith (1959-1998) US track athlete
King, Billie Jean (1943-____) US tennis player, activist
Lopez, Nancy (1957-____) US golfer
Navratilova, Martina (1956-____) US tennis player
Rudolph, Wilma (1940-1994) US track athlete
Zaharias, Babe Didrikson (1914-1956) US sportswoman, golfer
Someone should go to Mark’s church some Sunday and read this list out loud from the pulpit and then at the end ask if ANYONE would really want to live in a world where all of these women simply stayed home, had babies and catered to their husband’s desires.
“Here endeth the lesson”
I can add 2 more:
1. Catherine Bushnell: Missionary and Bible Scholar. Wrote God’s Word to Women about translation.
2. Joanna, wife of Chuza, in Luke 8
“Why is this attractive to anyone?”
The book of Jude warns about the Driscolls that would infiltrate Christendom.
“Why is this attractive to anyone?”
It’s attractive to people who still suffer from old-wineskinism. They think the old wine of male dominance and privilege is better than the new wine of liberty and justice for all, including the womenfolk. They are under a romantic delusion based on fairy tales and half truths.
Here is a movie based on the true story of a woman during the time of English patriarchy in the not so distant past. There is no Jane Austen fantasy here, but rather the hard cold facts of men owning all the power and money and women just having to deal with it even underneath the glamour of the very rich.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Duchess_(film)
Women are more easily deceived?
What about Brooksley Born, Chairperson of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), who warned about the dangers of derivatives and predicted a meltdown because of them. Alan Greenspan and others totally blew her off, shut her up, and shut her work down. They accused her of being “irrascible, difficult, stubborn, unreasonable.” In hindsight, of course, she was a prophet.
What about Sherron Watkins, the whistleblower and VP of Enron who warned Kenneth Lay and others about the accounting irregularities and foretold the Enron financial disaster. She has received numerous awards for her courage to speak the truth about the corruption there.
What about Elizabeth Warren, who (in addition to being a Sunday School teacher, BTW) has been warning for years about the way credit card companies and other institutions prey on vulnerable Americans. Her discernment is so respected that she’s been on the short list for appointment as a Supreme Court Justice, and is now head of the newly formed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
I wonder what Driscoll thinks of women like these.
I must really be letting the male gender down. My wife goes to the store alone. I didn’t know I was not supposed to allow that. I guess if she is buying salacious magazines she must be hiding them because I haven’t seen any. I admit I wasn’t aware of some of the things being said by Mark. It is hard for me to believe that the pulpit can become so, in my opinion, so degraded. The equal amazement is how jaded ppl can become and think because a pastor says something they are obligated to practice it. I guess I misinterpreted what Paul meant when He wrote “there is neither male nor female in Christ”. Of course i am sure we should be guided more by the Driscoll doctrine I conclude facetiously.
I apologize ahead of time to all the good men who comment here. Consider yourselves exempt from this comment.
Well if women are gullible according to scripture, then we need to take the whole counsel of Scripture and declare that all men are liars.
Psalm 116:11 I said in my alarm, “All men are liars.”
Psalm 62:9 Men of low degree are only vanity, and men of rank are a lie; In the balances they go up; They are together lighter than breath.
Romans 3:4 May it never be! Rather, let God be found true, though every man be found a liar.
Now don’t get all emotional like a man jacked up on testosterone and go on an angry tirade, Driscoll. If the hairs on the back of your head are standing on end, that just proves what I’m saying is true. The scripture clearly, in three places mind you, declares you are a liar. You are not fit to lead because you cannot be trusted to even tell the truth. And we know this is so with all men because of the stories men tell about the fish they catch or exaggerations concerning their sexual conquests.
And we know in particular about how you lie about scripture and twist it to say things it doesn’t say in order to control and maniputlate women. I’m especially disgusted with your flat out, blatant, and unholy lies concerning the Song of Solomon. You ought to be ashamed of yourself for all your lies.
Oops. Sorry folks. I just meant to share those scriptures in order to show how anyone can use scripture to beat down anyone else and got a bit carried away. Well, okay. Not sorry. I rather enjoyed myself.
A list of women politicians that includes Hillary but not Sarah and Michelle? Egads!!
Please don’t forget Rosalind Franklin.
Junkster
Karl lives in Maine. They are all uber liberal up there. 🙂
Mara — no need to be sorry at all. Hyperbole to make a very relevant point.
Mara,
We won’t get upset, well simply remain true to form and say it ain’t so. 🙂
What ain’t so?
Mara
Oh that Driscoll would read what you have written! However, he probably would read it and not get it because he appears to be self-absorbed.
Junkster,
I tried to limit the list to women that have actually improved and made contributions to our society .. hence no Sarah Palin. 🙁
Mara,
That all men are liars 🙂
Karlton, I know that!
Hence the apology to all you fellas before I started on my little rant.
Neither are all women gullible. Just because ol’MarkyMark finds some scripture he likes that seems to support his prejudices against women, it doesn’t make it so.
I was simply dishing out to him what he feels he can freely dish out against women and pointing out that He so freakingly wrongly divides the word of truth, he ought to be a laughing stock. It’s unbelieveable that he’s considered a respected man of God. Unbelieveable.
Karl
Oh no-I like Palin. I am just another one of those dadblasted conservative water carriers. She is a strong, Alaskan woman who doesn’t play well to “sophisticates” on the east and west coast.
It’s astounding to me that MD is given a platform from which to spew his nonsense. I simply don’t understand why any serious Christian leader gives this idiot the time of day.
Still praying.
http://prayingheart.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/mark-driscoll-and-company-master-architects-of-arbitrariness
Still Praying
You have a great blog. Keep it up. Let us know if any new stories develop. We would be happy to post them.
Mark Driscoll in “Pastor Dad” e-book — What thinkest thou? As for me, I am looking for a place to wretch… Might the wife have a real reason to be disgruntled and he just hasn’t been liistening?
“Proverbs 19:13 further stresses the correlation between the type of mother you choose for your children and the kind of children you will have, saying, “A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.” These two miseries simply go together. If a wife is a nag who disrespects her husband by chirping at him all the time, then the children in that home will follow her example and become fools who ruin their lives by similarly disobeying and dishonoring their dad. Wicked women not only fail to restrain their tongues in front of their children, but often intentionally attack their husbands in an effort to get their children’s allegiance, undermine the authority of their father, and bring anarchy to the home. Proverbs rightly calls this rottenness in the bones. By the way, this is how we have arrived at our present culture. Carolyn Graglia, the author of Domestic Tranquility, writes that in the 1950s, men were not doing a good job of leading and loving their families, but that the wives did not have the power and authority to overthrow their husbands and rule the families as they desired. So the wives simply recruited their children as allies against their husbands. If they could undermine the father’s authority and respect in the home, then the wife and children could control and manipulate and drive out the husbands and rule over the family. Brilliantly, Proverbs 19:13 explains how we got from the 1950s to the anarchy of the 1960s—namely, foolish men married godless women who recruited their own children to overthrow their fathers and usher in anarchy. Anyone doubting this descent would be well served to simply watch one of the innumerable popular sitcoms on television where the husband is an idiot and the wife trash-talks him in front of the children, and ask themselves why anyone finds that funny. Whose responsibility is it? Ultimately, it is men who are responsible because they chose their wives, they let them continue in sin, and they let them destroy their children. Hence, it is important that a man first love God and then seek a woman who loves God and will respect him and love his children, because he is ultimately responsible as the head of his home. Does this mean that the wife can never speak to her husband honestly? No, but if she is angry or the conversation will be tense, she should speak to her husband privately and respectfully and not in front of his children. This does not mean that the parents never disagree or resolve conflict in front of the children. The children need to see their parents resolve their differences, and this should be done in a godly way in front of the children and taken in private if things are not being handled well. Some of you grew up in homes where mom continually cut the knees off of dad right in front of you. And you learned to dishonor your father. Wise men seek to avoid this at all costs by marrying wisely.”
Virginia
If my husband scanned my emails and decided which ones i could read, I would know that I did not marry wisely. In fact, I might have married a “wicked” man. So only a man should marry wisely?
His stuff is asinine. Only a man choses in marriage? What about a woman? Does she sit around, waiting to be chosen?
Actually, I have a different take on the 1950s. The reason for the anarchy is the fact that the families were preaching one thing and living another. It was the superficiality that the 1960s revolted against. And the superficiality was as much the fault of men as well as women.
Driscoll is starting to sound like a nut job.
This is so interesting, along with kooky, we may use it as a blog post There is something going on with Driscoll. Once again, I predict that something weird is going to happen with him and it will be quite newsworthy.
Just *starting* to sound like a nut job? 🙂 I first read this a few years ago, when I still had favorable impressions of Driscoll because of my limited on-line exposure. But this just sits really wrong with me. It’s all the wife’s fault, except that he should have known she was wicked from the start. No matter if he has been driving her crazy by not listenening to her quieter entreaties. How about, “Honey, I understand that I must have deeply offended you. How can I make it right?” That’s more like real leadership. But nope, the little woman just has to keep chirping away… How do the women in his church stand it? We switched churches last year, and though there is an Acts 29 church nearby, I refused to even consider visiting there. It woulda been like jumping from the frying pan into the fire.
BTW, if you want to see the whole e-book, here is the link. http://theresurgence.com/files/2011/03/02/relit_ebook_pastordad.pdf
Virginia
I believe this “wicked woman” stuff will eventually backfire on some of these guys. Over time, the women will get tired of it as well. The only women who will put up with this for years are poor women who already have seriously low self esteem. We all need to keep speaking out.
Some of these male pastors seriously underestimate women. That will be to their detriment when women get tired of being called gullible and easily deceived-another Driscoll belief. There are quite a few men who fall into that category-Driscoll being one of them.
Leila
Preach it! We agree with you.