A Celebration of Women™ Celebrates the Life of yet another amazing woman that lived ahead of her time. This woman abandoned 'Society' and devoted her life to the activism of sexual freedom, equality in rights for women in free love; including marriage conditions and divorce, all in the late 1800's. Let her life not be lived in vain, and her memory live in the hearts and minds of the Women of our World. WOMEN of ACTION™ Aleksandra Mikhaylovna Kollontai Russian … [Read more...]
Rachel Carson – WOMAN of ACTION™
December 13, 2012 by
A Celebration of Women™ is elated to Celebrate the Life of this woman, a pioneering soul that cared so much about the world around her, she devoted her life to marine science. Her pioneering and persistent work lead her to become one of our world's leading women educating our globe on the key importance of the role of women in environmental grassroots movements, remembered as one of the most influential women in modern America. Celebrating the birth of modern … [Read more...]
Harriett Russell Strong – WOMAN of ACTION™
September 18, 2012 by
A Celebration of Women™ is honored to pay Tribute to another icon of America, a Woman! Her perseverence and intelligence created many great inventions; and her forsight of the necessity of water, inspired many of today's solutions of irrigation and general water supply. A True testiment to the Power of a Woman! WOMAN of ACTION™ Harriet Russell Strong THE PINK AND WHITE, HELPLESS prettiness; the delicate, fainting, clinging doll is … [Read more...]
Victoria Claflin Woodhull Blood Martin – WOMAN of ACTION™
September 13, 2012 by
A Celebration of Women™ has been inspired to Celebrate the Life of one of our history's strongest female powerhouses; one that ran for the Presidency of the United States of America in 1872. WOMAN of ACTION™ Victoria Claflin Woodhull Blood Martin "The truth is that I am too many years ahead of this age and the exalted views and objects of humanitarianism can scarcely be grasped as yet by the unenlightened mind of the average man." -- … [Read more...]
WOMAN of ACTION™ – Margaret Sanger *Tribute Celebration
September 4, 2012 by
A Celebration of Women™ pays Tribute and Celebrates the Life of an Woman that devoted her life to the teaching of Women to Take Action for there own bodies, inspiring responsible pregnancy, and careful parenthood planning. Celebrate the Life of the Founder of Planned Parenthood, our WOMAN of ACTION this day. WOMAN of ACTION™ Margaret Sanger Founder of Planned Parenthood Margaret Louise Higgins was born in Corning, New York, on … [Read more...]
Aspasia of Miletus – WOMAN of ACTION™
August 19, 2012 by
A Celebration of Women™ is inspired this day to go back in time, and we followed our hearts to find this divinely inspired woman. This woman is celebrated as one of the female teachers of the greatest philosophers. It is very exciting for us to Celebrate the Life of this great mind, woman ahead of her times, and the teacher to the likes of Plato, Pericles and Socrates...a critical power of example that women have built the foundations, since the beginning of time. Today, the … [Read more...]
Harriet Beecher Stowe *Tribute – WOMAN of ACTION™
August 14, 2012 by
A Celebration of Women™ is honored and inspired to pay Tribute, Celebrating the Life of this Woman ahead of her times, exerting courage beyond the average of her day. Gifted as a writer, this woman devoted her life to working as abolishist; to end the slave trade of the 1800's. In 1851, Uncle Tom's Cabin appeared in serial format in the National Era, a magazine that closely resembled a newspaper, and was published in Washington D.C. as an abolitionist paper, making her … [Read more...]
WOMEN of ACTION™ – Peacekeepers in History
August 2, 2012 by
WOMEN of ACTION™ World Women of Peace Peace Women From Our Past now includes of oral histories of our peace sisters, excerpted from Judith Porter Adams, Peacework: Oral Histories of Women Peace Activists (Twayne Publishers, Boston: 1990). The page numbers are included in each entry. Currently, we are displaying oral histories of Elise Hansen Boulding, and Enola Maxwell. Check back regularly for new oral histories. Elise Hansen … [Read more...]
WOMAN of ACTION – St. Joan of Arc * Tribute
June 18, 2012 by
WOMAN of ACTION with Courage of Faith in the Divine Feminine Joan of Arc Joan was born the daughter of Jacques d'Arc and Isabelle Romée in Domrémy, a village which was then in the duchy of Bar (later annexed to the province of Lorraine and renamed Domrémy-la-Pucelle). Joan's parents owned about 50 acres (20 hectares) of land and her father supplemented his farming work with a minor position as a village official, collecting taxes and heading the … [Read more...]
Amelia Earhart *Tribute – WOMAN of ACTION™
May 28, 2012 by
A Celebration of Women™ is elated to share this Celebration of the Life of a woman that exemplified courage, perseverence, strength and vision; all wrapped in one. In honor of INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION DAY, it seemed only appropriate to take this moment in time to Celebrate the Life of this Famous Pioneer Female Flyer. Earhart was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded for becoming the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Please … [Read more...]
WOMAN of ACTION – Cleopatra, our Tribute to Egypt
April 3, 2012 by
A Celebration of Women has been inspired by a new year to look back and Celebrate the Life of one of our world's powerful Women in History. It has been noted that even in the years of B.C., marriages were arranged at a very young age. Due to customs, Cleopatra married her younger brother, 11 year old Ptolemy XIV. Once married, she ruled Egypt with her brothers as an equal. A Woman ahead of her times ... or was she? WOMAN of ACTION Cleopatra "For … [Read more...]
WOMAN of ACTION – Her Grace The Dowager Duchess of Marlborough
March 18, 2012 by
A Celebration of Women in honor of WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH - MARCH, pays Tribute to a Woman of Action, that lived over 300 years ago, a very long life of 84 Years, (1660-1774). ...An Amazing Lifespan for those years! One of her Legacies to our world's History is that she was one direct bloodline to Sir Winston Churchill, for those of you that loved him. It may have been her Spirit that guided Winston's strong intuition and instincts, when it came to his outstanding Leadership during the … [Read more...]
