Strong Women Names?

General Name Discussion
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What are some names that are associated with strong women to you? Real women examples as well as mythological or fictional are appreciated! My list looks like this;

[name]Amelia[/name] ([name]Earhart[/name])
[name]Hillary[/name] ([name]Clinton[/name])
[name]Evelyn[/name] ([name]Nesbit[/name])
[name]Colette[/name], the author
Oriah
[name]Elizabeth[/name] (both Queens)
[name]Jane[/name] (Eyre)
[name]Clementine[/name] (film, [name]Eternal[/name] [name]Sunshine[/name] of the Spotless Mind)
[name]Bryony[/name] (Atonement)
[name]Athena[/name] (goddess)

Who do you think epitomize the image of a strong woman? :slight_smile:

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([name]Princess[/name])[name]Diana[/name]
(Mother) [name]Teresa[/name]
[name]Eleanor[/name] ([name]Roosevelt[/name])
[name]Joan[/name] (of [name]Arc[/name])
[name]Erin[/name] (Brokovich)
[name]Mary[/name] (Mother of [name]Jesus[/name] and [name]Magdalen[/name] too)
[name]Reese[/name] (Witherspoon)
[name]Dolly[/name] ([name]Parton[/name])
[name]Julia[/name] ([name]Roberts[/name])
[name]Lauren[/name] (Bacall)
[name]Katharine[/name] (Hepburn)
[name]Bette[/name] ([name]Davis[/name])
[name]Ingrid[/name] (Bergman)
[name]Scarlett[/name] (O’[name]Hara[/name])
[name]Anne[/name] [name]Shirley[/name] ([name]Anne[/name] of [name]Green[/name] Gables)

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[name]Margaret[/name] ([name]Thatcher[/name])
[name]Mary[/name] (Mother of [name]Jesus[/name])

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A little confused about definitions of strength but I’ll take a crack at it.

[name]Jael[/name], Biblical, and the one who slammed a tent peg through somebody’s head.
[name]Zenobia[/name] Ancient warrior, considerably more usable imo than the related [name]Xena[/name]
[name]Grace[/name] (O’[name]Malley[/name])
[name]Harriet[/name] (Tubman)
[name]Sojourner[/name] ([name]Truth[/name])
[name]Golda[/name] ([name]Meir[/name])

Oh and I hear there were one or two reigning monarchs named [name]Elizabeth[/name] and [name]Catherine[/name] :wink:

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Can’t forget those monarchs, can we? People keep mentioning them all the time. :wink:

I love the lists! [name]Just[/name] your definition of strength, usually of character, although I guess physical strength works too!

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[name]Rose[/name]- [name]Rosie[/name] the Riveter
[name]Eleanor[/name]- [name]Eleanor[/name] [name]Roosevelt[/name]
[name]Helena[/name]- [name]Helen[/name] of [name]Troy[/name]
[name]Scarlett[/name]- [name]Scarlett[/name] O’[name]Hara[/name]

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[name]Anna[/name] ([name]Eleanor[/name] [name]Roosevelt[/name]'s fn)
[name]Julia[/name] (from 1984)
[name]Bridget[/name] (Celtic goddess)
[name]Cecilia[/name] (St. [name]Cecilia[/name] of music)
[name]Esther[/name] (Biblical [name]Queen[/name])
[name]Eleanor[/name] (of Acquitane, and [name]Roosevelt[/name])
[name]Juno[/name]/[name]June[/name] ([name]Roman[/name] goddess)
[name]Junia[/name] (female disciple?)
[name]Lucrezia[/name] (Borgia)
[name]Simone[/name] (de Beauvoir)
[name]Mary[/name] ([name]Queen[/name] of Scots)
[name]Elizabeth[/name] ([name]Bennet[/name], of [name]York[/name], and of [name]Bohemia[/name])
[name]Margaret[/name] ([name]Thatcher[/name], Beaufort)
[name]Josephine[/name] ([name]March[/name])
[name]Emma[/name] (from the [name]Jane[/name] [name]Austen[/name] novel)
[name]Jane[/name] ([name]Austen[/name], [name]Bennet[/name])
[name]Ruth[/name] ([name]Bader[/name] Ginsberg)
Rosa (Parks)
Emmeline (Pankhurst)