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Heroines Quilt IX: Artemisia Gentileschi
Growing up as an artist, Frida Kahlo was my first heroine. I was captivated by her personality, her style, and the fearlessness behind her work. But as my artistic skills developed, I found myself searching for inspiration in painters who worked within my favorite...
Heroines Quilt IX: Malala Yousafzai
Even though we are the same age, but she is my hero—Malala Yousefzai. I am 29 years old and feel like I have known who Malala is and the amazing things she has done for most of my life. I remember hearing about this girl who was shot for wanting to go to school,...
Heroines Quilt IX: Nannie
In my girlhood heroine race, it’s a close contest between Wonder Woman (those boots! those cuffs!), the Bionic Woman (so speedy! such good hearing!), and my grandmother, Nannie, who couldn’t fly or bend steel, or jump very high. As far as I know she didn’t fight...
Heroines Quilt IX: Grandma Nettie
My great-grandmother Nettie Wilhemina Kummer loomed large in my girlhood, despite her passing when I was only a baby. My great-grandmother was a tiny woman – less than five feet tall – but the stories of her life filled me with wonder and with the assurance that women...
Heroines Quilt IX: My Mum
Today, young girls might think they need superpowers or a flashy costume to change the world. But true heroines are often the quiet ones, like my mum—the woman who shaped my life with her quiet strength. She was born into the post-World War II era, where...
Heroines Quilt IX: Scarlett O’Hara
I don’t remember when I first saw the movie Gone With the Wind, but I must have been only four or five years old. By the time I was ten, it had become something of an obsession. And the main reason was Scarlett O'Hara. She was, in many ways, all the things I was not....
Heroines Quilt IX: Ellie Sattler
Growing up, I loved both the book and movie versions of Jurassic Park. One of the revolutionary films of the 1990s for its CGI, it continues to shape childhoods through its sequels and spin-offs. But for me, the groundbreaking part was Doctor Ellie Sattler, played by...
Heroines Quilt IX: Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart inspires me. Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly across the Pacific Ocean. She inspires me to always be courageous and strong. Amelia also worked at some settlement houses built for people who had come from other countries to America after World...
Heroines Quilt IX: April Kepner
April Kepner on Grey’s Anatomy is my hero because she grew up on the farm, but she is a doctor even since she was little. She works in the ER and the OR and she works hard. She does a lot of work to help people and she has a baby. Nava K.
Heroines Quilt IX: Lucy
My girlhood was one I shared completely with my best friend, Lucy. Wherever she was, I was, and vice versa. We are so joint at the hip that someone recently admitted they thought we were the same person appearing in multiple places at once!Luckily for me, Lucy...