Category Archives: strong women

Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams by Linda Harris Sittig

Posted on January 29, 2014 by lhsittig@verizon.net

Strong women sometimes come as a pair, and sometimes they actually do get recognized for their achievements. Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams were the winners of the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts in organizing a significant peace movement … Continue reading →

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Karin Bergöö by Linda Harris Sittig

Posted on January 2, 2014 by lhsittig@verizon.net

Should a woman’s life change because she marries someone famous? Would her life change even more if both she and her husband share the same career? In 1882 at the age of twenty-three Karin Bergöö became engaged to Carl Larsson, … Continue reading →

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Dagmar Wilson by Linda Harris Sittig

Posted on December 3, 2013 by lhsittig@verizon.net

If Dagmar Wilson were alive today, she’d be shaking her head about the recent nuclear activity negotiations with Iran. Fifty years ago Dagmar fought a similar issue, but against the Soviet Union. She was enough of a pragmatist to realize … Continue reading →

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Tempe Wick by Linda Harris Sittig

Posted on October 31, 2013 by lhsittig@verizon.net

Tempe Wick grew up in an era when our country was at war. Actually, we weren’t even a country yet – just thirteen colonies bound together in a rebellion against England. Tempe was the youngest of the Wick’s five children, … Continue reading →

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Judith Goodman and the Pioneer Women of Big Sur by Linda Harris Sittig

Posted on October 1, 2013 by lhsittig@verizon.net

The women who helped to settle the wild coastline that hugs the Santa Lucia Mountains in Monterey County, California came from many different backgrounds. They trickled in over the course of different eras, but were all bound by a love … Continue reading →

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Mary Anning, Paleontologist by Linda Harris Sittig

Posted on September 2, 2013 by lhsittig@verizon.net

What if you made one of the most important geological discoveries of all time, but because you were a young uneducated girl, no one paid much attention – at first. Ichthyosaur, plesiosaur, pterosaur. Today dinosaurs are familiar creatures in story … Continue reading →

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Veronica Guerin, Journalist by Linda Harris Sittig

Posted on August 1, 2013 by lhsittig@verizon.net

Veronica Guerin was an investigative reporter who paid the ultimate price of being a strong woman. Back in the mid 1990s the Republic of Ireland earned the nickname ‘Celtic Tiger’ because of the tremendous economic boom that occurred, changing the … Continue reading →

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Ellen Canavan, Irish Entrepreneur by Linda Harris Sittig

Posted on July 3, 2013 by lhsittig@verizon.net

One hundred fifty years ago the Civil War was raging. Thousands of men had already given their lives for a cause they fervently supported, and one woman had risen from total obscurity to the ranks of unimagined riches through the … Continue reading →

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Irena Sendler, Resistance Fighter by Linda Harris Sittig

Posted on June 1, 2013 by lhsittig@verizon.net

She should have won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for her incredible feat of helping over 2,500 Jewish children escape from the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland, during the Holocaust. But she lost out on the prize to someone else, and … Continue reading →

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Mary Louise Chambers, Depression Generation Survivor by Linda Harris Sittig

Posted on May 2, 2013 by lhsittig@verizon.net

She never published a story, painted a picture, or won an award. She didn’t do volunteer work or help out in her children’s classrooms. Other than a bowling trophy, she never received much recognition in life at all. Yet she … Continue reading →

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