# Monuments to women **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 1, 2001, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763 "2001-02-01T20:12:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/21 "2013-06-26T19:17:27Z")
Since this got resurrected: Chicago honored Jane Addams with carved granite pedestals featuring outstretched hands. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/22 "2013-06-26T19:31:24Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > OK, I’m blowing the tanks on my own thread because I accidentally came across [this monstrosity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PortraitMonument.jpg). It was removed from the basement, where it had been safely hidden for over half a centure, and into public view at a cost of about $75K. That looks like Abraham Lincoln on the right. ---
**Author:** ![Troppus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a587f6/32.png) [@Troppus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troppus)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/23 "2013-06-26T19:44:28Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > OK, I’m blowing the tanks on my own thread because I accidentally came across [this monstrosity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PortraitMonument.jpg). It was removed from the basement, where it had been safely hidden for over half a centure, and into public view at a cost of about $75K. Gah, that’s hideous. Are they nude below the waist or did they collectively step into a large manhole while the sidewalk was being paved? ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/24 "2013-06-26T20:08:08Z")
As a kid, this woman’s story and statue impressed me - [Mary Jemison](http://www.letchworthparkhistory.com/jem.html). (Scroll down for statue) ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/25 "2013-06-26T20:19:01Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > That looks like Abraham Lincoln on the right. The one who looks like she’s wearing curlers is Elizabeth Cady Stanton, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/26 "2013-06-26T22:35:54Z")
> **[The Motherland Calls](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Motherland_Calls)** > > The Motherland Calls (Russian: Родина-мать зовёт!, tr. Rodina-mat' zovyot!) is the compositional centre of the monument-ensemble "Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad" on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, Russia. The statue is designed in the Soviet style of socialist realism. It was created by sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich and structural engineer Nikolai Nikitin, and declared the tallest statue in the world in 1967. At 85 m (279 ft), it is the tallest statue in Europe, the tallest in the eastern hemisph... [Here also](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://englishrussia.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/d181d0bad183d0bbd18cd0bfd182d183d180d0b0-d180d0bed0b4d0b8d0bdd0b0-d0bcd0b0d182d18c.jpg&imgrefurl=http://englishrussia.com/2009/11/08/russia%25E2%2580%2599s-seven-wonders/&h=600&w=800&sz=72&tbnid=krNGqi-1-asDBM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=120&prev=/search%3Fq%3DMother%2BRussia%2BMonument%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=Mother+Russia+Monument&usg=__cWOXun-c-A1UG1_FQAjNj82KRqc=&docid=FbJzukfWLlMOjM&sa=X&ei=62zLUdvwIKqY0QHMuYCQAw&ved=0CC4Q9QEwAA&dur=4267#imgdii=_) ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/27 "2013-06-26T22:41:07Z")
> **[Hannah Duston: The Mother's Revenge, Haverhill, Massachusetts](https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/21105)** > > Kidnapped and dragged to New Hampshire -- then Hannah had her revenge on her captors. With a hatchet. ---
**Author:** ![lawbuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@lawbuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawbuff)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/28 "2013-06-26T22:47:45Z")
> **[Greenville, OH - Annie Oakley Memorial Plaza](https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/12187)** > > Visit reports, news, maps, directions and info on Annie Oakley Memorial Plaza in Greenville, Ohio. ---
**Author:** ![lawbuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@lawbuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawbuff)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/29 "2013-06-26T22:53:27Z")
Oh, I don’t know if you wish to include Statuary Hall in the Capitol building? If you do, then there are women. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/30 "2013-06-26T23:00:59Z")
> [@lawbuff](#): > > Oh, I don’t know if you wish to include Statuary Hall in the Capitol building? If you do, then there are women. 1st thing I thought of. ---
**Author:** ![lawbuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@lawbuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawbuff)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/31 "2013-06-26T23:02:10Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > 1st thing I thought of. I don’t see why they would not be included?? Been there many times! I just counted them, there are 8. ---
**Author:** ![lawbuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@lawbuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawbuff)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/32 "2013-06-26T23:14:09Z")
Just checked on another Ohioan besides Annie Oakley post 28, (she’s in in the book of world records), there is a statute; > **[Seville, OH - Grave of the Married Giants](https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/25261)** > > Visit reports, news, maps, directions and info on Grave of the Married Giants in Seville, Ohio. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/33 "2013-06-26T23:17:06Z")
Well, in PA there is the [Molly Pitcher](http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Molly-Pitcher-Statue-Marking-the-Grave-of-Mary-Mccauley-in-Carlisle-Pennsylvania-Posters_i4241438_.htm) statue. The story goes that she & her ramrod inspired men to fight on at the front lines rather than retreat. Then of course there’s [this lady’s](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Statue_of_Liberty_approach.jpg) port of call: Bayonne, NJ. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/34 "2013-06-26T23:41:25Z")
Close to where I live in Portland is [this](http://relocationtoportland.com/files/2009/01/joan-of-arc.jpg) statue of Joan of Arc. I’m not overly fond of the color. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/35 "2013-06-27T00:11:36Z")
There’s a statue of [Harriet Tubman](http://ionenewsone.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/harriet.jpg) in Harlem. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/36 "2013-06-27T00:15:36Z")
The Sacajawea [article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacagawea#In_sculpture) in Wikipedia lists eighteen different statues to her. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/37 "2013-06-27T00:49:11Z")
> [@stuyguy](#): > > Related to Uke’s inquiry and the OP, I should mention the controversy surrounding another Queens, NY statue, the one of Queen Catherine (???) something-of-other of Portugal (???) for whom the borough/county was reputedly named. Is stuyguy still posting? Maybe he’ll be happy to know it was Catherine of Braganza. She was a queen of England, though Braganza is in Portugal. Also owned Bombay for a time. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/38 "2013-06-27T01:13:22Z")
[Boudicca (aka Boadicea) in her chariot](http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8526/8486809666_65a167e809_z.jpg). Westminster bridge, London. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/39 "2013-06-27T04:11:01Z")
Amelia Earhart, resident of North Hollywood, Ca. Statue outside the [Amelia Earhart public library](http://www.eyespyla.com/www/thebuzz.nsf/15672842a198494b882572810057d753/08e23a9a085e55fb88257118006ca4c4!OpenDocument), North Hollywood, Ca. (Scroll down a little bit for a larger picture.) Google Image search for Amelia Earhart statue turns up similar statues in other places as well, many of them similar to this one (with her standing next to a propeller). ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/40 "2013-06-27T04:16:32Z")
What? No zombie jokes yet? No pictures of statues of female zombies? [Here.](http://www.statueforum.com/showthread.php?p=4125116) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763.md?page=3)