The Women's List

The Women's List gives filmmakers direct access to great scripts written by women. New list 7/15/26

[Renee @PettyLupone]

He targeted her leg like a pro wrestler 🤣

[Tony Lane 🇺🇸 @TonyLaneNV]

A hiker came around a blind corner on a trail at Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park Alaska and found herself face to face with Bear 909 - one of the most well known Alaskan Coastal Brown Bears in the park - along with her two cubs.

Instead of panicking she stepped off the trail about 12 to 15 feet, stopped when the terrain ran out, stayed calm, used one voice, and let the bears pass.

That is textbook bear encounter protocol and she executed it perfectly under pressure that would have most people completely frozen. The bears at Brooks are habituated to humans and have a high tolerance because of the salmon food source in the area but they are still wild animals that can turn defensive in a split second if they feel threatened. The number one rule - never run.

Running triggers the predatory instinct and at that point the encounter changes completely. Always carry bear spray and know how to use it before you ever set foot in bear country.

Could you remain that calm in that moment?

[The Women's List @TheWomensList]

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[End3of6Days9 (Helen) 🇺🇸 @end3of6days9]

This little parrot is next-level trained and adorable! He’s chilling on the steering wheel during a drive when he suddenly says “poopy”… so his dad quickly pulls over, sets him on the curb, and lets him handle his business like a pro.

The bond (and the training) is just too cute. Has your pet ever surprised you with how smart they are?

[ANNE LAMOTT @ANNELAMOTT]

I just celebrated 40 years clean and sober. How did I do that? I didn’t drink one day at a time, with a lot of help, and I didn’t die. If you are sick and tired of being sick and tired, sick of the shame and panic and hangovers, the people here in the comments section will help you. I know them. It would be their pleasure.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Six Feet Under (2001–2005) begins with a death and ends by reminding you life is the point. Every funeral becomes a window into the Fisher family, and few shows have understood grief, love, and growing older with this much honesty.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This is what the internet was invented for.

In 1996, a King Penguin called Lala became a local celebrity in Shibushi, Japan. After being rescued from a fishing net by the Nishimoto family, he refused to return to the wild.

He lived in an air-conditioned room in their home and was famous for walking alone to the fish market wearing a tiny backpack.

The fishmonger would feed him a fresh fish and place another in his bag for the trip home.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

In the year 2000, a seven-year-old boy named Tyrel Wolfe from Idaho packed a shoebox for Operation Christmas Child, the Samaritan's Purse program that sends gift boxes to children around the world.

He filled it with toys and small items, and before it was sealed and shipped, he tucked in a small photo of himself dressed in cowboy clothes along with his first name.

The box traveled to the Philippines, where it was distributed through a local church to a young girl named Joana.

She opened it, found the photo of the little boy in western gear, and kept it.

She wrote a thank-you letter and tried to send it back to Idaho.

The letter never arrived. Somewhere in the postal system between the Philippines and the American Northwest, it disappeared, and Tyrel never knew anyone had tried to reach him.

Joana held onto that photo for eleven years.

In 2011, she searched Facebook for the name Tyrel Wolfe.

It was an unusual enough name that she found a profile she thought might be him and sent a friend request.

He did not recognize her, had no idea who she was, and initially ignored it.

At some point later he accepted the request without thinking much about it, and she sent him a message.

She described the photo. A little boy in cowboy clothes, packed into a Christmas shoebox that had been sent to her as a child in the Philippines.

He realized what she was describing. He was that little boy.

She was the girl his box had reached more than a decade earlier.

They started talking. The messages turned into daily conversations, covering their families, their faith, and their lives on opposite sides of the world.

The connection deepened over time into something neither of them had anticipated when a seven-year-old in Idaho decided to pack a shoebox for a stranger.

Tyrel saved money and flew to Manila to meet Joana and her family in person.

The relationship that had started through charity and reconnected through Facebook became a transatlantic love story built on regular visits and long-distance communication sustained by both families.

They got married in Idaho in October 2014, on his family's ranch.

For their wedding, instead of traditional gifts, they asked their guests to bring Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes.

The celebration that marked the beginning of their marriage was surrounded by boxes packed for children around the world, the same way their story had started with one box packed by a child who had no idea what it would eventually become.

There is something about this story that resists being reduced to a cute coincidence.

A seven-year-old boy put his photo in a box and sent it to a stranger.

That stranger kept the photo for eleven years, found him on the internet, and eventually married him.

The thank-you letter got lost. The connection found another way.

Truly, some things are just meant to arrive.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: Two boys on paddle-boards are being praised as heroes after heartwarming footage emerged of them RESCUING A DROWNING RACCOON during the Texas storms.

The two boys, Tucker and Owen saw the raccoon being sucked under by the current, scooped it out of the water, saving it's life.

The animal crawled underneath Tucker's legs, hiding from the rain and the storm.

They paddled him all the way to shore through the storm and let him go.

Absolutely awesome!!!!!! ❤️

[Kakashi @Kakashi_xbt]

Timothy Olyphant said that he's was told to go naked on a movie called stick and he ask his wife advice if he could do it or not....

Conan O'Brien: "So they wanted you to be naked for a scene, but you weren't into it?"

​Timothy Olyphant: "Yeah, they wanted me to get a spray tan and be naked. I asked my wife Alexis, and she was like, 'If you're naked on TV, you're basically naked on the internet. And it makes me so mad when actors are naked on mediocre shows.'"

​Conan O'Brien: "I was naked on ALF."

​Timothy Olyphant: "You were ALF's body double?!"

​Conan O'Brien: "My dick was ALF. For two seasons. The puppet got lost, it was a contract dispute..."

​Timothy Olyphant: "Well, my wife pointed out that I could just get a body double and leave the set early. So I did.

When I showed up and saw the guy, I thought, 'He's not in that great of shape, I should've gotten a nicer ass.' But it turned out he had a great ass, you just couldn't tell at first. So now, I'm changing my story that was actually my ass."

[Paris Hilton @ParisHilton]

Remember last week when the girls Provo Canyon School’s license was revoked? They’ve now officially shut down the boys. Provo Canyon school underestimated me. They messed with the wrong girl, and now they can never hurt another child again. ❤️
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[Edward Burger (not Berger) ❤️🌈 @edwardbrgr]

And the fact that he still makes time to crash Jimmy Kimmel's show as part of their never-ending "feud" to promote The Odyssey just makes him even more lovable. God, I love this guy so much. It's even funnier when you remember how it all started. Kimmel's "Apologies to Matt Damon, we ran out of time" was originally just a throwaway joke at the end of an episode. Damon saw it, loved it, encouraged Kimmel and the producers to keep it going, and it ended up becoming what might be the longest-running comedy bit in Hollywood.

I never, EVER want this running gag to end until Kimmel retires 😂

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

He didn't want a room full of crying people, so he pulled off the ultimate funeral prank

In October 2019, Shay Bradley, a 62-year-old Irish Defence Force veteran, loving father, and grandfather, was battling a long-term illness and knew his time was short. He and his son secretly recorded a hilarious audio track. As his coffin was lowered into the ground in South County Dublin, Ireland, a hidden speaker suddenly started playing the recording.

[Love Music @khnh80044]

This is one of my favorite videos of all time. As a child psychologist, it’s a perfect example of joint attention, preverbal communication, and coregulation.❤️

[Hispanically Yours @HispanicallyUrs]

LATINEWS: #LindseyVillarreal among finalists for #TheWomensList's (@TheWomensList) 2026 #ScriptsList. https://t.co/z4NcKvUE8W

[The Women's List @TheWomensList]

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[Carolyn Rockey @CarolynWRockey]

Jo Nagai was raising swallowtail butterflies at his home in Kobe, Japan, when he noticed something odd. The ones he had looked after as caterpillars seemed to recognize him. Wild butterflies fled. His didn't.
He was in second grade. He wrote a four-page letter to Dr. Martha Weiss, an entomologist at Georgetown University who had studied whether moths could retain memories through metamorphosis. He asked if she could help him design a version of her experiment for butterflies.
She said yes.
Using a muscle therapy device, Jo trained caterpillars to associate the scent of lavender with a mild vibration. When the caterpillars became butterflies, 70 per cent of them still avoided the lavender. Their brains had been completely rebuilt during metamorphosis. The memory survived anyway.
Then he bred them.
The offspring, which had never been trained, also avoided lavender. So did their grandchildren. Without ever experiencing the vibration, two generations of butterflies inherited an aversion to a scent their grandmother had been taught to fear.
Jo documented it all in a 33-page research paper and presented his findings at the International Congress of Entomology in Kobe in 2024. He was 10.
A second grader wrote a letter to a Georgetown professor, and together they found evidence that butterflies can pass memories down through generations.

-Wilderness Whisper

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

A Scottish Highland cow born just two hours ago
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[End3of6Days9 (Helen) 🇺🇸 @end3of6days9]

This dog was living his absolute best life… until he got busted.

The second his owner yells “Buster,” his ears drop like he just got caught red-handed. No running, no excuses — just pure “I know I messed up” energy.

“You got busted, Buster” might be the best line I’ve heard all week.

Does your dog ever give you that exact same guilty look?