Too Great to Erase

A thought I enjoyed: With the trend of women and their contributions being erased from history those that did make the books and remain in our hearts and minds - they are there not out of the privilege that earned their many of their male counterparts a place in the books - they are there because they were too effing epic to erase. They were too badass and too amazing to be tucked away or be a part of the usual disappearing act, they were too great to disappear.

If anyone else is like me they have their historical heroines, women that came before you whose names and faces and stories taught you that despite all the Kings and Presidents and beards on the money, that you were capable of doing something important. That you could refuse to give up your seat on a bus for example, and change a nation. Try finding a picture or a portrait of your historical heroine, if one doesn't exist then just hold her in your head the way you imagine her, and just think, "You were too great to erase."

That thought just makes them even more amazing to me so I thought I'd share.

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“I may not be a lion,but I am lions cub and I have lion's heart”
- Elizabeth I Tudor

"Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind."
- Elizabeth I Tudor

"I will have here but one mistress and no master."
- Elizabeth I Tudor (to Robert Dudley)


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