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[lacuna]

When I was coming back from Shropshire the week before last, I was discussing personal heroes with some of my colleagues. I enjoy hearing about people's heroes, as they're quite personal and can say quite a lot about a person. Mine probably says I'm a bit odd (!), as my long-time hero is Lord Soper, the Labour peer and Methodist campaigner who

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[amaebi]

Hmmmmm. I'm not very good at this sort of quesiton, as I don't carry lists around in my head. One of my heroes is Charlotte Perkins Gilman, though. Another is Zora Neale Hurston. Peter Lombard. Michael Moore. Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Lots more people.

[notagain]

I'm not really big on heroes, but I do like to tip my hat to Carl Djerassi, who invented the oral contraceptive and thereby freed women from sex=pregnancy, bringing with it sexual, domestic, medical and psychological liberation.

[thefairmelissa]

Kate Adie. No doubt about it. Even as a kid in the 80s I used to point at her on TV reporting in her bullet proof vest and tell my Mum I wanted to be like her. In a way, I still do, especially since having read her autobiographies. I have tremendous respect for people who are f***ing terrified of what they are doing...but still do it anyway. That´s courage. And (sad to say) I know I could never actually do that.

[lacuna]

And (sad to say) I know I could never actually do that.

Well, that's relative, really: I'd be terrified to do what you do, too!