Shine Woman Of The Year on Shine

Shine Women of the Year (Love + Sex): Hillary Rodham Clinton

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One of my favorite women in history andone of Time's 100 most important people of the last centuryis Margaret Sanger. She was a crusader for reproductive freedom and fought to educate and empower women about conception and contraception, and then to make birth control accessible to everyone. Among her many activist endeavors, Margaret Sanger founded the organization that eventually became Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She also wrote and spoke many words that could rally easily rally a new generation of women fight for their own sexual health rights.

One of Margaret Sanger's quotes has come to mind often in the last year as abortion rights were argued, voted on, and protested as a part of the election:

Shine's Women of the Year (Healthy Living): Ali Vincent from "The Biggest Loser"

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Why is it that healthy living so often seems to be about the extremes? There were the roller coaster highs of crossing finish lines, kicking sugar completely and cheering on so many amazing female Olympians from field to pool to pommel horse. And then there were the lows of diagnoses, drugs and body image ridiculousness. We do a pretty good job ofcalling out the crazy, sad and questionable lows. Now it is time to put all that aside and toast our BPA-free reusable water bottles to honor the women who've inspired us to live healthier lives.

Shine woman of the year (food): April Bloomfield

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April Bloomfield is Shine's food woman of the year, but why? Because she's the no b.s., super talented lady responsible for making the gastropub (English pub food) movement accessible, and remarkably edible in the US. She also makes us feel very cool. How does she do it? Well, for one, she opened The Spotted Pig, one of the most remarkably unique restaurants of the century and secondly, we now get to casually mention that we had some grilled beef tongue with duck fat potatoes the other night, and it was good. Pretty cool, right? We agree.