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`A woman
needs a
man like a fish needs
a bicycle'
Graffiti.
`To see her is a Picture,
To hear her is a Tune,
To know her an Intemperance
As innocent as June'.
Emily Dickenson (d. 1886)
'Stepping Out' by Eileen Cooper 1990
Yes, I am wise, but it's wisdom full of pain
Yes, I've paid the price, but look how much I've gained
I am wise, I am invincible,
I am Woman!
Helen Reddy
(From the song "I am Woman").
Nikki
& Helen
from 'Badgirls'
Xena & Gabrielle enjoy an intimate moment
Lara Croft - PC Game icon
| Women of Cornwall |
Continued... from Homepage.
Nancy Astor - First Woman to take up a seat in the British Parliament and represented Plymouth.
James `Miranda' Barry - who disguised herself as a man in order to train as a Doctor. James joined the Army medical service in 1813 and took up her first appointment as Army Surgeon in Plymouth. it was not until after her death that it was discovered that the great Doctor was in fact a Woman.
Bryher - Writer and partner of H.D (Hilda Doolittle - US Author). She took her name from the island of Bryher on the famous Scilly Isles off the coast of Cornwall, where she rented a cottage and regularly visited.
Dorothy Cade - Founder of the "Minack Theatre" at Porthcurno in 1932. The Minack is an open-air Theatre built into the side of a cliff...
Celia Fiennes - Famous Traveller, who rode to "Land's End" on horseback from Wiltshire in 1698.
Ann Glanville - Ann was born and lived in Saltash. She came from a "Waterman's" family and helped to ferry passengers and goods over to Devonport. Ann had 14 children and when her husband fell ill, she supported the whole family herself.
As light relief this amazing woman rowed in regattas as stroke woman in the Saltash Women's crew, competing at Hull, Liverpool and Portsmouth. They seldom lost a race and on one never-to-be-forgotten occasion in 1850, they rowed at Le Havre against an all-male French crew.
It was during the race that Ann was heard to yell... "Bend your backs to it, maidens - and hoorah for old England!" They won, and by an astonishing 100 yards.
Melissa Etheridge.
Barbara Hepworth - One of the greatest Abstract Sculptors of this century, who lived in St. Ives.
Daphne du Maurier - The Helford river was the setting for Daphne's novels about Frenchman's Creek and Rebecca, whilst her popular novel about smuggling was set at the "Jamaica Inn", which stands on Bodmin Moor.
Mary Read - Mary was thought to have been born in the Plymouth area in 1690, she used male disguise to join the Army and the Navy. She eventually joined up with "Pirates" en route for the West Indies, finding her `partner' in-crime the Irish Woman Anne Bonny, another pirate in male dress. They became two of the most famous female pirates of all time.
Dora Russell - Enthusiastic and indefatigable campaigner for Women's Rights, Birth Control and World Peace.
Virginia Woolf - Novelist and Essayist, who was born in London, but spent most of her childhood near St. Ives in Cornwall. It was here that she based the book "To the Lighthouse".