Eleanor Rosevelt, Golda Meir, Marie Curie, Margaret Mead

Elizabeth I, Marie Curie, Eleanor Roosevelt, Oprah Winfrey

So many great women and only four places!!! In no particular order: Margaret Sanger, Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Gloria Steinem.

All I can say is WOW O WOW! This is so great; thank you for bringing celebrity status to the real world of women bloggers. I can hardly wait to post about this to my blogs, lenses and other social circles I participate in. But first, I want to answer the question of women on Mount Rushmore: Eleanor Roosevelt, Helen Keller, Susan B. Anthony, and Lenore Breslauer, a mother of two, who helped found Another Mother for Peace during the Vietnam War and helped coin their marvelous slogan: “War is not healthy for children and other living beings.”

Eleanor Roosevelt, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Tubman, Susan B Anthony

I had e-mailed, but like others, it’s not here. If we are limited to US born women, I would say Golda Meir, Oprah Winfrey, Sagajawea and Eleanor Roosevelt. If we can go international, Mother Theresa and Indira Ghandi would have to substitute somehow. I’d like to think that we would build a monument more inclusive than just four!

how did you choose which choices to publish?

So happy to see other woman felt Georgia O’Keeffe should be up there, she’s one of my hero’s….wrinkled, beautiful with a young boyfriend…ok, ok and talented! And by the looks of it we need some more great American women so we all should get on it! (Not that we are all not great, but you know what I mean…) fondly, Bw

I also replied on Thursday and these are my choices- Susan B. Anthony- women’s suffrage; Margaret Sanger- birth control; Juliette Gordon Low- founder of Girl Scouts and Katherine Hepburn because I believe she personifies what the other three fought for or founded.

Sandra Day O’Connor, Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Oprah Winfrey. Each is an archetype representing a determined woman transforming a culture, or breaking through the ultimate glass ceiling. We should send a thank you their way every time we think about what the world would have been without them.

I wouldn’t put ANY woman’s face on Mount Rushmore or anywhere on the earth, in that form. To me, the true mark of any woman’s accomplishments is that of a healthy earth, a place where we know we will be nurtured and cared for, and in that nurturing and caring not leaving any visible mark on the earth other than the beauty of nature and life the earth already provides us. To me, Mount Rushmore is a symbol of a destructive patriarchal pattern - however good and honorable these men may have been when alive - that has seen the last of its time here. Yes, now is the time for the Divine Feminine to makes its presence known, for the accomplishments and gifts of all women to be recognized and honored, to bring balance back to our world, yet in a way that does not require being carved in stone.

I love this site! Thank you and good luck! Mari Lou

I wrote yesterday, but I guess it didn’t get posted. My four women: Eleanor Roosevelt, Maria Mitchell, Ethel Barrymore, and my mother, Ruth Kanner - egk

I don’t see any sports figures, so I’d like to add Billie Jean King to the list!

This question surprises me. Yikes! Must we compete with big rock statues of our own? Sheila Nevins’ response is the only one befitting the question. Looking forward to seeing better and more interesting questions on the site now that it’s launched.