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elle_white) wrote2010-09-03 09:00 pm
elle_white) wrote2010-09-03 09:00 pm
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Top five role models/people you want to be when you grow up. Given to me by ![[info]](https://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
fialleril
This was so, so difficult because there are a lot of people I want to be when I grow up! I decided to mostly go with real life, instead of the fictional kind.
5. Eowyn
Eowyn is amazing. LotR is not one of my main fandoms and I don't talk about it often, but I love the story and I love Eowyn's role within it. She incredibly baddass, determined and get to do something that no man can. I love that she's very compassionate. Eowyn desperately wants to help others and be accepted for her talents, regardless of her gender.
I Definitely want to be Eowyn when I grow up! :)
4. Tina Fey
Now on to actual, rl peoples. Tina Fey is awesome comedian and actor. She's been so successful in the field of comedy (which is largely a male dominated field). She is so funny and intelligent. She really knows how to make those glasses work, especially in an industry that often depicts glasses as horrible and ugly. So, successful and awesome comedian and actor is awesome and successful. I want to be that amazing when I grow up! Plus anyone who does a voice in a Miyazaki film automatically qualifies you as awesome!
3. Cate Blanchett
Yay for Aussie actors! (We were both born in the same state.) Cate Blanchett is a wonderful actor and a very elegant lady. She's played some of the most incredible people, including Queen Elizabeth and Katherine Hepburn! She's a strong- minded and compassionate person. She is an environmentalist and works within an organization to help heighten awareness about climate change.
She's also a big nerd! One of the things she most excited about when playing Galadriel in LoftR, is she got to wear the pointy ears. She even kept the ears and had them bronzed! That is awesome beyond words. Haha. And the rule about doing a voice in Miyazaki film applies here too! Such an awesome lady!
2. Jane Austen
I'm going to list her a few times during this meme. I'm sorry, but Victorian lady writers who mock the strict conventions of society in their writing and challenge them through their actions are incredible. Yeah, want to be Jane Austen when I grow up. :p
1. Alice Redwin
I decided I was going to mention my grandmother here because she was awesome. She died when I was six. My grandmother lived on the track for years while raising a family, survived the Great Depression and worked as a nursing sister and later a theatre sister at the Dora Creek hospital. She invented some new surgical instruments. Many of them were named after her.
My grandmother also loved to read and paint. She left me many of her books, including her complete collection of Shakespeare's works.
I remember hearing a story about her during the Depression. While living on the common, a priest from St. Paul's church came to her door offering to help the family if she converted, as was the practice in those days. Not wanting to change her denomination and managing to make ends meet with her husband, she refused his offer. This man had a reputation in the community for being supercilious misogynist. In other words, a total ass. He saw my grandmother's rifle in the doorway and asked her if she could use it. She told that she could. He didn't believe her and challenged my grandmother to prove it. So, she told him to place his cobra hat on the clothes prop. He did. She shot hole straight through the middle. He put his hat back on and silently walked away, feeling thoroughly embarrassed I imagine. For months afterwards, he walked around town with a hole in his hat.
So, my grandma was a pretty cool lady. :)
fialleril This was so, so difficult because there are a lot of people I want to be when I grow up! I decided to mostly go with real life, instead of the fictional kind.
5. Eowyn
Eowyn is amazing. LotR is not one of my main fandoms and I don't talk about it often, but I love the story and I love Eowyn's role within it. She incredibly baddass, determined and get to do something that no man can. I love that she's very compassionate. Eowyn desperately wants to help others and be accepted for her talents, regardless of her gender.
I Definitely want to be Eowyn when I grow up! :)
4. Tina Fey
Now on to actual, rl peoples. Tina Fey is awesome comedian and actor. She's been so successful in the field of comedy (which is largely a male dominated field). She is so funny and intelligent. She really knows how to make those glasses work, especially in an industry that often depicts glasses as horrible and ugly. So, successful and awesome comedian and actor is awesome and successful. I want to be that amazing when I grow up! Plus anyone who does a voice in a Miyazaki film automatically qualifies you as awesome!
3. Cate Blanchett
Yay for Aussie actors! (We were both born in the same state.) Cate Blanchett is a wonderful actor and a very elegant lady. She's played some of the most incredible people, including Queen Elizabeth and Katherine Hepburn! She's a strong- minded and compassionate person. She is an environmentalist and works within an organization to help heighten awareness about climate change.
She's also a big nerd! One of the things she most excited about when playing Galadriel in LoftR, is she got to wear the pointy ears. She even kept the ears and had them bronzed! That is awesome beyond words. Haha. And the rule about doing a voice in Miyazaki film applies here too! Such an awesome lady!
2. Jane Austen
I'm going to list her a few times during this meme. I'm sorry, but Victorian lady writers who mock the strict conventions of society in their writing and challenge them through their actions are incredible. Yeah, want to be Jane Austen when I grow up. :p
1. Alice Redwin
I decided I was going to mention my grandmother here because she was awesome. She died when I was six. My grandmother lived on the track for years while raising a family, survived the Great Depression and worked as a nursing sister and later a theatre sister at the Dora Creek hospital. She invented some new surgical instruments. Many of them were named after her.
My grandmother also loved to read and paint. She left me many of her books, including her complete collection of Shakespeare's works.
I remember hearing a story about her during the Depression. While living on the common, a priest from St. Paul's church came to her door offering to help the family if she converted, as was the practice in those days. Not wanting to change her denomination and managing to make ends meet with her husband, she refused his offer. This man had a reputation in the community for being supercilious misogynist. In other words, a total ass. He saw my grandmother's rifle in the doorway and asked her if she could use it. She told that she could. He didn't believe her and challenged my grandmother to prove it. So, she told him to place his cobra hat on the clothes prop. He did. She shot hole straight through the middle. He put his hat back on and silently walked away, feeling thoroughly embarrassed I imagine. For months afterwards, he walked around town with a hole in his hat.
So, my grandma was a pretty cool lady. :)