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Celeb News: The Guardian: The World's 100 Most Inspiring Women
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The Guardian: The World's 100 Most Inspiring Women
From l-r: Shirin Ebadi, Aung San Suu Kyi, Graça Machel, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Thatcher, Doris Lessing, Lady Gaga. Photograph: AP/Rex Features
The Guardian women's editor explains how our list of inspiring women was compiled to mark the 100th International Women's Day
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International Women's Day celebrates the *economic, political and social achievements of women, so what better way to mark its centenary today than with a list of 100 of the world's most inspirational women?
We wanted to focus on role models from all over the world and from all walks of life. The women on this list have largely achieved astonishing feats in their own right, but most have also in some way, we hope, helped their fellow women. As Madeleine *Albright once said: "There's a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."
Our starting point was you. Readers *provided more than 3,000 suggestions. Then a panel – *including Sarah Brown, campaigner; Emma Freud and Brigid *McConville of the White *Ribbon *Alliance; Liz *Forgan, chair of the Arts Council; *Channel 4 News reporter Samira Ahmed; and, from the Guardian, Madeleine Bunting, Afua Hirsch, Homa Khaleeli, Clare Margetson, Natalie *Hanman, Emine Saner and Kath Viner – whittled down the list.
Some of our choices will be controversial, some unknown, some *obvious. But we hope they are all thought-provoking.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011...nal-womens-day
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 Congrats to all of them
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My queen. I'm so proud right now, you can't even imagine 
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why the pepsi ceo's name not labeled?..
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On Gaga:
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Lady Gaga may have sold millions of records, and been named among the top-selling artists of 2010, but her buzzy, trashy, disco-derived dance stomps aren't the source of her greatest influence. They're just the engine of the ramped-up rise to superstardom that has brought her 8.5 million Twitter followers, the creative directorship of Polaroid, and political sway that can't easily be dismissed – even when submerged under skirts made of Muppets.
Gaga, 24, has been compared to Madonna, but, while they share a gift for metamorphosis and a lust for the spotlight, their sensibilities are very different. Madonna's image has tended towards glamorous, sexy, cool, while Lady Gaga's tends towards the grotesque, surreal and unsettling.
She has appeared on stage dripping blood, or perched on a toilet; at the close of her Bad Romance video she lies, smoking, beside a corpse, sparks phut-phutting from her bra. "I want your ugly, I want your disease," she sings in that song, in a style as far from submissive, simpering sexuality as you can get.
She sees herself as the voice of outsiders and of the gay community; bisexual herself, she has spoken out against the US military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, which bars openly gay people from the armed forces. Last year, she delivered that message at the MTV Video Music Awards, where she also appeared in her most notorious outfit – a dress made of meat. It was a look that toyed with notions of female sexuality and challenged the limits of the body: the dress made of large latex bubbles or the enormous gyroscope.
Her costumes have become increasingly cocoon-like – at this year's Grammys she arrived in a large, clouded egg. She emerged to sing her gay rights anthem, Born This Way, with its pulsing lyric, "don't be a drag, just be a queen". It's a tenet Lady Gaga clearly lives by.
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at this year's Grammys she arrived in a large, clouded egg.
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She has a beautiful way to make us love her more every day
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The charts are nice but they're not enough to make a true icon who'll be remembered.
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The charts are nice but they're not enough to make a true icon who'll be remembered.
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This. Charts are just a plus, perharps if the singers got that we would have more talented singers like Gaga or Beyoncé. We don't need anymore Kesha's
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another day, another great news  LEGEND!!
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This. Charts are just a plus, perharps if the singers got that we would have more talented singers like Gaga or Beyoncé. We don't need anymore Kesha's
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Anyway congrats to all these ladies!
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