What a bullshit response. AGAIN!!!
You can't name any women you respect other than your mother and only because she didn't sleep around or have an abortion.
Your misogyny shines through in every post. Education, achievement, awards, and success isn't worthy of your respect. Unless a woman conforms to your code of "respectable behaviour", you have no respect for her. And even then you don't really respect her as a person, but as a model of acceptable female behaviour. You talk about her behaviour, not her as a person.
My mother was not well educated, but she was very wise and she was possessed common sense, which is a rare thing. As a child, I thought her "old sayings" amusing, but as an adult, they have guided me well. I now find myself telling my children the same things. After my father died, she rented crappy houses, and turned them into cosy homes. She built cupboards and closets, refinished the floors, stripped layers of wallpaper and patched walls.
She planted a kitchen garden and kept us fed summer and winter. I had dig it and tend it because by then her arthritis was in her arms and hands. She canned and preserved everything she grew, and helped her. She made all my clothes when I was little, and she taught me to knit and sew. But when my oldest was born, she told me I would have to make her layette, because she could no longer knit or sew. I do I wish I'd paid more attention to her construction work. I've needed those skills at times, and didn't bother with that stuff when she did it.
My mother's family nickname was "Flip". I'm the youngest, I never knew why. Her favourite perfume was Chanel No. 5. I think of her whenever I smell that perfume. She died when I was 30. I still miss her.
Like your mother, she didn't screw around, drink to excess or do drugs. She raised 6 children and taught us the value of hard work, and right from wrong. She never terminated a pregnancy. But that really doesn't say anything about her at all.