Favorite Historical Female

[Caliga]

Rome's most infamous cheating whore, wife of Roman Emperor Cl-cl-cl-cl-cl-claudius.

WAAH WAAAH WAAAH I KONT!!!!
Do it, child.  Your life is finished.
I KONT, I KONT, WAAAAAAAAH

[Sheilbh]

Barbara Castle

I love Margery Kempe and whoever Marie de France was.

If I was American I think I'd LOVE Shirley Chisholm.

[jimmy olsen]

Jean d'Arc

[garbon]

Not at all. Rather, I'm recognizing that on Languish, one is not likely to find someone saying that a woman is their favorite historical figure since a lot of people on here seem to prefer war figures over most others. So, by asking the question as I did, I'm likely to learn about more historical women than I would if I only asked who a favorite historical figure might be.

In my opinion, it isn't trivializing to separate a sub-group out in order to learn things about them that aren't normally addressed in the general course of things. When most of what you learn is about one group in history, specifically asking about other groups allows you to learn more interesting facts than you would otherwise come across.

Which unfortunately I think continues the trend. However, given what you later said was your aim with this thread, I understand.

[Drakken]

Rome's most infamous cheating whore, wife of Roman Emperor Cl-cl-cl-cl-cl-claudius.

WAAH WAAAH WAAAH I KONT!!!!
Do it, child.  Your life is finished.
I KONT, I KONT, WAAAAAAAAH

One of I, Clavdivs' best scenes.

[Ideologue]

Rosa Luxemburg.

[Valmy]

Rosa Luxemburg.

Not Emma Goldman?

[derspiess]

Rosa Luxemburg.

Lolz Freikorps FTW

[Neil]

Rosa Luxemburg.

  Yeah right.  No way she was under 100 pounds.

[Ideologue]

Rosa Luxemburg.

Not Emma Goldman?

Luxemburg wasn't a dirty anarchist.

[Syt]

Rosa Luxemburg.

The other day I sat in the subway across from a '68 generation lefty who read "Not Marxist, and not Anarchist either: Women of the First International".

[Barrister]

Lady Jane Franklin.

I read a bio of her as a result of my interest in Arctic exploration, but she was quite the fascinating figure in her own right.

[Camerus]

To mention two 19th century American women, I always found both Sacagawea and Sojouner Truth pretty interesting.

[Caliga]

One of I, Clavdivs' best scenes.

I liked the scene immediately following when those dudes told Claudius about the execution and he then listened to them drone on about stupid shit, they looked at each other and were like "ummm time to GTFO" and then C-C-C-C-C-Claudius started crying in that fucked up manner of his.

[Caliga]

Anyway, as to the OP, I always thought Empress Theodora was pretty cool.  From hooker to Empress of Byzantium.