Wonderful Women Of The World
Posted by Michelle Moquin on May 3rd, 2014
Good morning!
I usually feature a Wonderful Woman Of The World. Just to continue the weekend fun and perhaps more of you will get involved, it’s YOUR turn.
Who is your favorite Wonderful Woman Of The World** and why?
**Note: She does not have to be anyone known or famous…she could simply be wonderful just to you! So, get your fingers tapping and blog me.
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May 3rd, 2014 at 9:21 am
I’m electing YOU, dear blog host and friend, as a ‘Wonderful Woman of the World’.
I’ve learned more about everything here than I ever would’ve on my own – including about myself & my good, bad and ugly (I affectionately refer to the ugly as my ‘needs work’ parts) so yep, I’m going to leave it at that, you are definitely someone to emulate.
Luv, Zen Lill
May 3rd, 2014 at 8:33 pm
Yes you are Michelle. Xoxo
/SB
May 4th, 2014 at 4:53 am
I would have voted for you Michelle but I couldn’t get in.
May 4th, 2014 at 4:54 am
I hope this makes it in I am voting for Hilary Clinton.
May 4th, 2014 at 5:01 am
This is my first time writing in I vote for my mother, Claire she has been an excellent role model for all 9 of us. I went to law school to get her out of prison for killing that asshole home terrorist who beat her every weekend.
We got her our last year. I say we because my younger sister and older brother also went to law school to help get our mother out.
The rest of the family did what they could to support us financially and emotionally to save our mother. The system is geared to support the males no matter how much abuse they force their spouses to endure until they snap.
May 4th, 2014 at 5:13 am
Michelle, I can’t believe I got in. So my reason for picking you is that you never miss an opportunity to promote our cause.
We are constantly being bombarded by subliminal messages that say we are not as good as men. You make it your mission to debunk that shit.
Thank you and you are my choice of The Most Wonderful Woman in the World.
May 4th, 2014 at 5:14 am
Anne Bonny who was a really tough pirate and a woman pirate to boot.
She was the lover of John “Calico Jack” Rackham who had an affair with him while she was married. After she was discovered she chose to rather be flogged for adultery than to be bought in a divorce by purchase simply because she did not want to “bought and sold like cattle.”
She later ran away with Rackham and joined in his piracy until one day his crew was captured easily because they were all drunk. Only her and Mary Reed fought as hard as they could but were captured. She claimed she was pregnant and was released.
When Rackham and his crew were sentenced to death she unflinchingly told him
“I am sorry to see you here Jack, but if you had fought like a man, you need not be hanged like a dog,” and left him.
After this she simply dissepeared from history. Several theories have been going around as to what happened but no concrete proof has been brought forth to support any of them. That lady had more guts than any other woman in history that I know of.
May 4th, 2014 at 5:17 am
I choose You Michelle because you have helped us women in Africa to form clubs to voice our abuse and to help each other no matter what country we are in.
May 4th, 2014 at 5:18 am
I vote for you Michelle because Madaline is a kick-ass girl and you are her boss.
May 4th, 2014 at 5:18 am
Just curious what other people think. There are so many wonderful historical people that I just don’t know who I’d pick as my favorite. Amelia Earhart, Mother Teresa, Rosa Parks, Florence Nightingale, Helen Keller, Susan B. Anthony, Margaret Sanger, The Virgin Mary, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Mohammed, Gandhi, Buddha, Confucius, Johann Gutenberg, Christopher Columbus, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Louis Pasteur, Jonas Salk…gosh, there are so many! Who do you like and why?
May 4th, 2014 at 5:19 am
I like Joan of ARc because she was such a remarkable personality, brave and confident and forthright, and her voice can still be heard speaking distinctively in this modern age from the time of her trial.
May 4th, 2014 at 5:19 am
Not all Roman Emperors were crazy like Caligula and Nero. Some were very good and allowed the Roman Empire to endure for centuries.
My favorite historical person is Constantine I. While Jesus and his disciples were most important to Christianity, it’s hard to imagine what would have happened if Constantine didn’t take steps to end the persecution and make it an official religion of the Empire. I also like Julius Caesar, Charlemagne and Elizabeth I.
May 4th, 2014 at 5:21 am
I vote for you Michelle because you chose that question rather that who is the most beautiful woman in the world.
May 4th, 2014 at 5:23 am
Octavius#12, what are you an idiot or just a man. That could be redundant. She asked you to pick a woman. We have enough men grabbing the spotlight.
How about your mother, If she could read your post she would probably be researching retroactive abortions about now.
May 4th, 2014 at 5:26 am
No doubt you get my nod Michelle. I’m a big fan. I think I saw you with your mother yesterday. I was going to mention that I read your blog, but I was embarrassed to be acting like a fan.
Your honesty and willingness to expose your inner hurts and truths to help the rest of us to relate is powerful. I honor you for that.
May 4th, 2014 at 5:27 am
Emily Dickinson, but I’m bot going to tell why,
Try to find out about her, you’ll understand.
May 4th, 2014 at 5:35 am
There are some excellent women who work to make like more than just tolerable by men who that cult the catholic church has set above us as if they are our lords.
But I choose you, Michelle, because you are not afraid to take on male bullshit and spit it in their faces.
May 4th, 2014 at 5:44 am
I choose my big sister Helen. She introduced me to your blog when I turned 18 last year. She has encouraged me to see my role as a woman differently from the subservient way our mother has presented.
Thank you Helen for being who you are and for helping me see what I can be.
May 4th, 2014 at 5:50 am
Michelle it is almost 3Pm here in Johannesburg, South Africa. I have been trying since last night to get my vote in.
I pick you because you are the embodiment of fierce. Unlike some on this blog who can’t take a little criticism you do and give back better.
You are a true example of a woman Vassel who had to defend her husband’s fief when he was away except your fief is the world and any man be damned.
We admire the way you can admit when you feel that you are wrong or that you erred, but refused to back up when you know that you are right.
I love your blog because you are a part of it.
May 4th, 2014 at 5:55 am
Botswana cast it vote for Michelle and Oprah Winfrey. 142 votes were cast the tally was 71 for Oprah and 71 for you. As President I submit the results.
You both set the example by the things you do to help women become people again. Human beings with worth.
You use the means available to you and you never give up. We love you both.
May 4th, 2014 at 5:58 am
It’s 10:55 here on Guam and I have gotten a bunch of calls telling me that you blog is back up Michelle.
So for those of us who now can vote I cast my ballot for the woman whose commitment is ever present in the lives of women all over the world, That would be you Michelle.
You are truly the Most Wonderful Woman in the World. I hope when and if the time comes you will beam me up.
Anna
May 4th, 2014 at 6:00 am
Michelle like you the women on the Faroe Islands are small in number but we be fierce about who we choose as the most wonderful woman in the world.
You are our choice because you make it easy to look a man in the eye and say that tradition is bullshit and I will not follow it.
May 4th, 2014 at 6:05 am
I will be late for 9am mass here but who cares. I want to vote for the woman who stood up to the popes of that cult and called there male adulation an insult to thinking women of the world.
I think therefore I am not a catholic anymore. I go to please my mother, but I sit and think about your blog Michelle.
Sometimes it prompts me to hurry to get back and scream at the way men abuse us.
But today I scream proudly, “Michelle es la más maravillosa de la mujer en el mundo.”
May 4th, 2014 at 6:14 am
After examining the position of women around the world, the Washington-based Population Crisis Committee reported in 1988 that Finland, slightly behind top-ranked Sweden and just ahead of the United States, was one of the very best places in which a woman could live.
The group reached this conclusion after examining the health, educational, economic, and legal conditions that affect women’s lives.
Still, women in my country are second class citizens in their own country because men reserve most of everything for themselves. Although we have many women who strive to bring down the barriers, it has not changed significantly in the last decade.
Therefore I choose you, because you unceasingly remind us women that we have a lot to do to achieve equality and that only by supporting other women wherever they may live will we attain that status.
May 4th, 2014 at 6:26 am
I am new to your blog Michelle. I live in Astana Kazahkstan. I think your blog is new here. I learned about it from tourists who stayed at the Radisson Hotel in Astana where I work.
They wrote your blog address on the mirrors with soap. it said, “Женщины Kazahkstan получить лучшую жизнь. Читайте blog.michellemoquin.blog и рассказать своим chauvanistic мужчин ебать прочь.”
Which literally means “Women of Kazahkstan get a better life. Read blog.michellemoquin.blog and tell your chauvanistic men to fuck off. ”
It has been written in english, french, spanish and several other languages. You are getting to be big here. Men have taken to calling us Michellesluts.
I wear it like a badge. You are my Wonderful Woman.
May 4th, 2014 at 6:31 am
Candice#19, please be aware that ‘vassal’ wasn’t a social status in itself; it was a relationship. In the feudal system, *everybody* from the poorest serf upwards was somebody else’s vassal except the king himself – and even he could be a vassal if he held territories in another king’s realm. (E.g. the kings of Scotland held the earldom of Huntingdon in England, and therefore were the vassals of the kings of England – who themselves held the duchy of Normandy in France, and therefore were the vassals of the kings of France!)
So ‘What would be the role of a vassal?’ is really a meaningless question. The question you meant to ask is ‘What would be the role of a female holder of a feudal fief?’
When a woman inherited a fief, her principal role was to be married off to somebody who her lord wanted as one of his vassals. One of the biggest inducements a lord could proffer to a valuable potential follower was ‘if you become my sworn man and serve me faithfully, I’ll give you an heiress’.
An unmarried feudal heiress was in the guardianship of her overlord and was obliged to marry whoever he wanted; in some jurisdictions he had to offer her a choice of three candidates, in others she got no choice at all.
She could only refuse if the prospective candidate would have ‘denigrated’ her – i.e. wasn’t her social equal. And once she was married, it was her husband who was the vassal – he held the fief in right of his marriage to her.
Generally speaking a woman would only hold a fief and administer it in her own right if she was a widow with a son who would inherit but too young to hold it herself (widowhood was a very liberating event for many medieval women).
However, that didn’t mean they had no authority. A medieval lady was expected to be able to run a manor, castle or province by herself whenever her husband was away – she managed the supply and the finances, administered justice, kept the defences in order, withstood a siege if necessary.
Basically, she needed to be able to do everything he would normally do, up to and including taking an army into the field, except actually leading troops in battle.
That being said, I too pick Michelle as the obvious choice because she covers so many areas that affect the lives of women and she advocates that in everyone of them women should take the fight to the men, unapologetically.
May 4th, 2014 at 7:07 am
I’m going to go with Alycedale. I choose her because when I first came to this blog she was a force to be reckoned with. I don’t know where she has gone but I always looked forward to her posts.
May 4th, 2014 at 7:11 am
Here in the Philippines if we could have a vote with people who have read your blog Michelle, you or Zen Lill would win it.
We are always taking sides as to who is more this or that on your blog. I like Zen Lill because I am of the older voices in our group. I don’t see it that the men are the most at fault.
I think it is about even Amelda Marcos was just as bad Marcos himself. I see the reflections of Zen Lill as closer to my way of thinking. But you both deserve some Kudos for the effort you make towards making the lives of women better.
May 4th, 2014 at 7:13 am
I know I can’t speak for Cuba but I would venture to guess that since you are cited so when we women want to settle an argument, it would be you Michelle.
May 4th, 2014 at 7:19 am
The Netherlands proudly cast a vote for Prism Princess because I love her blog and always brings up issues that make me excited to go and read her links.
If she spoke Dutch I would call her and spill my guts. I write english better than I speak it so I am content to just read her writings. You should visit her blot at http://www.orderlyrandomness.com/blog. You won’t be disappointed.
May 4th, 2014 at 7:21 am
I nominate my beloved sister Michelle because her blog is just STUPENDOUS! And she is a helluva a woman. “Bien qu’elle soit mais peu, elle sera féroce.”
Can
May 4th, 2014 at 7:22 am
I nominate my beloved sister Michelle because her blog is just STUPENDOUS! And she is a helluva a woman. “Bien qu’elle soit mais peu, elle sera féroce.”
Can’t wait until you visit us again.
Love
Ruth
May 4th, 2014 at 7:23 am
I’m going to go with Zen Lill if a man can cast a vote. I like her fairness and her style.
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