Heroines Quilt IX: Malala Yousafzai

Mar 24, 2026 | 0 comments

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

Mar 23, 2026 | 0 comments

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

Mar 22, 2026 | 2 comments

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

Mar 21, 2026 | 4 comments

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 families...

Heroines Quilt IX: Scarlett O’Hara

Mar 20, 2026 | 0 comments

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

Mar 19, 2026 | 0 comments

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...

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