Strong, Smart Women

Smart, Strong Women

Girls often fear their intellect will get in the way of their acceptance among their peers, will hinder their ability to be attractive to boys, so they deliberately dumb themselves down.

Here is the story of an internationally-acclaimed beauty who put her fine mind to work for a cause far more worthy than her recognition as "the most beautiful woman in the world."

Girls, enjoy all God's gifts to you. Accept your beauty and revel in it, but also use your mind to assure your gifts will benefit not only your future but the future of every life that touches yours.

Hedy Lamarr, often proclaimed “the most beautiful woman in the world.” The 26-yr-old Lamarr was thriving in Hollywood when, in September 1940, Nazi U-boats hunted down & sank a cruise ship trying to evacuate 90 British schoolchildren to Canada. 77 drowned in the bleak north Atlantic. Lamarr, a Jewish immigrant from Nazi-occupied Austria, who had been making America her home since 1938, was outraged. She fought back by applying her engineering skills to development of a sonar sub-locator used in the Atlantic for the benefit of the Allies.The principles of her work are now incorporated into modern Wi-Fi, CDMA and Bluetooth technology,and this work led to her to be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.