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Ada & Ida

Ada Byron Lovelace

The daughter of Lord Byron, the famous poet, Ada had a natural gift for mathematics. Among her works are translations of several mathematical works into English, but her most famous contribution is the correspondence she had with Charles Babbage, the inventor of the first mechanical calculating machine. By detailing step by step how to use the machine to calculate Bernoulli numbers, Ada became the world's first computer programmer. She also predicted more than a century in advance that one day calculating machinery would become something that society could not live without. In some of her more fanciful thoughts on calculating machinery, she speculated that machines might one day be programmed to program themselves, leading to a machine that could "swallow its own tail." Today, of course, such programs exist. Imagination, a disciplined mind, and the daring to think the unthought of makes Ada Lovelace one of my hot women.

Ida B. Wells

If any person can be said to have given credence to the saying that the pen is mightier than the sword, it is Ida B. Wells. She was born into slavery in 1862. Her parents both died in an epidemic when she was just 14. Yet Ida went on to become educated in letters in a time when opportunities for black women to become educated were sparse at best. Ida Wells went into journalism. Her editorials concerning lynchings in Tennessee together with her persuasive oratory both in the United States and in Europe (where she successfully urged folks to boycott American cotton until the lynching situation improved) caused lynchings to drop by more than half. She was also one of the founders of the NAACP, and repeatedly had herself thrown off of trains for refusing to sit in the colored section and all this decades before Rosa Parks was born. Courage, determination, and the power to move people to what's right makes Ida Wells one of my hot women.

But You Say, "Those Women Are All Long Gone..."

So Below Are Some from Our Time

Corazon Aquino drawing by Karl Hahn
When a woman urges her followers to face tanks and rifles with no weapons other than their bare souls, and they do -- and carry the day, that is my kind of woman.

Barbara McClintock
Gregor Mendel gave us the foundations of genetics, but it took Barbara McClintock to build a bridge from that shore to the understanding of the matter we have today. Mendel told us what genes were. Ms. McClintock told us how they conspire with each other to make organisms what they are. So what accouterments might a woman wear over her chest to make her more beautiful? How about a Nobel medal.

Mara Liasson
Who does not feel more in tuned with the world after hearing Mara's analysis on NPR of what's happening at the Whitehouse? And now we see her regularly on Washington Week, where a wider audience might reap the benefits of her powers of observation. Not only that, on TV she proves to the world that small-breasted women are sexy too. You can find out more about her by clicking here

Margaret Thatcher
What can I say about Ms. Thatcher? Just that power and strength are sexy. To illustrate, here is a snippet of an interview with her concerning the Gulf War:

Q: The end of the war--one of the American generals involved, when he was told the war was coming to an end, he couldn't believe it, he thought it was a joke.

Oh Maggie -- come whisper sweet words like that in my ear any time.

Barbara Jordan
She was the unrequited love of my life. The sound of her voice still sends chills up my spine. But that I could hear you say, "Ethical behavior means being honest, telling the truth, and doing what you said you were going to do," one more time. Why is it that the obvious needs to be repeated over and over? And why do so many still not listen to you? Barbara, I miss you already.

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