I have spent the last few weeks asking people who their Heroes are and, most importantly, their Heroes who are not the same gender as them. It has been a small sample surveyed so far, but the blank looks that come from women asked about their male Heroes and men about their female Heroes genuinely surprised me, because my Heroes are not only of my gender. Anne Boleyn Jane Austen and William Shakespeare Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley Henry Tudor and his daughter Elizabeth Edith Wharton and Henry James David Attenborough and Stephen Fry There was one woman who topped almost everyone’s list of Heroes however, and for Christmas one of my inspirational friends gave me a book of her writing. Glancing through Come Be My Light , I immediately saw that Mother Teresa wrote her letters in a style very similar to one of my favourite poets, Emily Dickinson. The goosebump inducing revelation from Mother Teresa’s writing is that although she brought light and hope t