# 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:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**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, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/41 "2013-06-27T04:27:31Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > What? No zombie jokes yet? > > No pictures of statues of female zombies? > > [Here.](http://www.statueforum.com/showthread.php?p=4125116) Flesh falls of the arms and legs, but the boobs remain perfect, I see.:rolleyes: ---
**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, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/42 "2013-06-27T04:30:27Z")
Statue pics of [Marilyn Monroe](http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/marilyn%20monroe%20statue) Srsly, folks. The InterTubez haz everything. Just think of a famous female. Any famous female. Then do a google image search for statue of [insert name of famous female] ---
**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, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/43 "2013-06-27T04:32:16Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > Flesh falls of the arms and legs, but the boobs remain perfect, I see.:rolleyes: Well, I suppose silicon lasts much longer. ---
**Author:** ![Doggo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/87869e/32.png) [@Doggo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doggo)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/44 "2013-06-27T10:35:27Z")
Molly Malone has a statue in Dublin, there was a statue of an armless/ legless woman in London some years back, there is a blindfolded woman holding scales over court buildings, there’s a huge one in the New York harbour, there’s thousands of statues of women ( usually naked ) in museums and someone called Mary has millions of statues all over the world. ---
**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 27, 2013, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/45 "2013-06-27T12:03:33Z")
> [@Doggo](#): > > and someone called Mary has millions of statues all over the world. Yeah, there’s _something_ about 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, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/46 "2013-06-27T13:26:10Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > [Boudicca (aka Boadicea) in her chariot](http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8526/8486809666_65a167e809_z.jpg). Westminster bridge, London. The OP was looking for monuments in the US. There are hundreds of statutes of Boadicea all over southern England though. ---
**Author:** ![sunstone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunstone/32/3372_2.png) [@sunstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunstone)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/47 "2013-07-03T03:58:38Z")
There are twelve statues located in 12 states that the old National Old Trails Road traversed from Maryland to California. The one I saw frequently as a kid was located at Foothill Blvd and Euclid Ave in Upland, CA Basically it was in honor of the pioneer women who played an essential role in the development of the USA. See the link below: > **[Madonna of the Trail](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna_of_the_Trail)** > > Madonna of the Trail is a series of 12 identical monuments dedicated to the spirit of pioneer women in the United States. The monuments were commissioned by the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR). They were installed in each of the 12 states along the National Old Trails Road, which extended from Cumberland, Maryland, to Upland, California. > Created by sculptor August Leimbach and funded by contributions, the Madonna of the Trail monuments were intended to provide ... ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/48 "2013-07-03T05:57:47Z")
There’s a statue of the (probably legendary) Cherokee maiden Noccalula in Gadsden, AL. [http://www.bhamwiki.com/w/Noccalula\_statue](http://www.bhamwiki.com/w/Noccalula_statue) ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/49 "2013-07-03T06:56:27Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > The OP was looking for monuments in the US. There are hundreds of statutes of Boadicea all over southern England though. Untrue. She burned three towns and had lots of noncombatants massacred, but she wasn’t much of a lawmaker, still less were any of her decrees adopted outside the Iceni. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/50 "2013-07-03T07:19:51Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > What? NOt even a statue to Rosa Parks? I could’ve sworn I heard there was one, at a bus stop or something like that… There’s a statue of Rosa Parks sitting on a bus seat in the U.S. Capitol. There are also statues of Sojourner Truth in Florence, MA, Abigail Adams in Boston and Quincy, MA, Pocahontas in Jamestown, VA, Helen Keller in the U.S. Capitol and Keller and Anne Sullivan in Tewksbury, MA, Ella Fitzgerald in Yonkers, as well as a Clara Barton monument at Antietam National Battlefield. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/51 "2013-07-03T08:26:05Z")
In Washington, DC, there’s [Queen Isabella](http://www.dcmemorials.com/index_indiv0000950.htm) in front of the Organization of American States on 17th St. NW (a gift from Spain), and [Jeanne d’Arc](http://www.dcmemorials.com/index_indiv0001820.htm) atop Meridian Hill in Malcolm X Park on 16th St. NW, a very impressive setting overlooking the cascades, a gift “_Aux femmes d’Amérique_” from “_Les femmes de France_.” ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/52 "2013-07-03T08:52:22Z")
In the observatory atop Mauna Kea on Hawai’i, there’s a [statue commemorating Sonmi](https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/292848_113705422120425_1567814297_n.png). Or rather there will be in the 24th century. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/53 "2013-07-03T10:27:14Z")
Agustina de Aragón has several, this is[the one in Zaragoza’s Portillo](http://www.zaragoza-ciudad.com/turismo/agustina.htm) (the spot where she fought during one of the battles of Spain’s War of Independence). The same war gave us María Pita, [here in A Coruña.](http://www.minube.com/rincon/estatua-de-maria-pita-a71027) There are many women who, along that Mary chick, tend to have statues indoors. ---
**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:** [July 3, 2013, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/54 "2013-07-03T14:31:52Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > Untrue. She burned three towns and had lots of noncombatants massacred, but she wasn’t much of a lawmaker, still less were any of her decrees adopted outside the Iceni. You bastard. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2013, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/55 "2013-07-10T13:19:32Z")
[Bust of Kate Chopin in St. Louis](http://feldmannotes.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/found-kate-chopin/), corner of Euclid & McPherson. I used to work at Duff’s across the intersection from there ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2013, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763/56 "2013-07-10T17:28:32Z")
We’ve got a statue of Mary Tyler Moore throwing her hat up in the air outside of Macy’s in downtown Minneapolis… Not sure she really deserves to have a statue - I don’t know that her acting changed the world or anything - but we’ve got it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monuments-to-women/52763.md?page=2)