Women's History Open Thread: Fictional Role Models
I’m thinking a lot about literature this weekend because I’m presenting on “Women in Leadership” on a panel with former White House doctor, Connie Mariano at the Tucson Festival of Books. Fictional characters can play a big part in our lives. Are there fictional women who have been fantasy role models for you?
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Some great comments from Facebook!
Debra Boehlke The Woman Concierge character in ” The Elegance of Hedgehogs”
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Kara Rosseaux Charlotte in Charlotte’s Web.
More from FB:
Rebecca Jaramillo Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice. She had to come to grips with her family, her situation in life, her passions and say no to the offer of love and marriage to a rich man until she respected him — something difficult for a dowry-less woman to do!
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Janet Miller Jo Little Women…
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Gloria Feldt And also I read Little Women multiple times, relating only to Jo among all the sisters.
I keep finding ’em on FB:
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Debra W. Haffner Nancy Drew. Seriously, she taught me at 6 that women could be smart and have serious adventures (and cool cars)
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Gloria Feldt I read every Nancy Drew book two or three times, not realizing why I liked them so much.
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Tamra Spivey Gertrude Stein
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Jennifer Lyons Louisa May Alcott
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David Austin Margaret Atwood. Barbara Kingsolver. Terry Tempest Williams.
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Eddie Achey Firestone. Shelley. Shelley’s Mom. Cady Stanton. Nin. et al.
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Gloria Feldt I love all these answers. Yes! To all of them.
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Grayson Dempsey Alice Walker. I have loved her since I was 13 years old, and yet just read her first novel “The Third Life of Grange Copeland” and it ripped my heart wide open (which is important to do every now and then!).
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Elizabeth Hines Toni Morrison. Jane Austen. The Brontes. Julian of Norwich. Zadie Smith. Virginia Woolf. Dorothy Parker. Susan Sontag. ZZ Packer. Simone de Beauvoir. Joan Didion. Riat Dove. George Eliot. And the list goes on…
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Elizabeth Hines (I meant, “Rita” Dove, of course…).
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Jennifer Lyons I’m enjoying this thread so much. Thank you Gloria!!!
And from my twitter feed-Vickie Pynchon (multiple tweete) get the prize for the most!!
Chloe Angyal Anne Shirley, from LM Montgomery’s series! Everyone’s favourite redheaded snippet.
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Andrea Plaid
Good morning @GloriaFeldt. My vote=Fanny Price from “Mansfield Park.”
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VictoriaPynchon
@GloriaFeldt #WHM #wmnhist Denise Levertov, Jane Kenyon, A.S. Byatt, Nora Ephron, Zadie Smith, Shirley Jackson, Alice Munro, Sharon Olds
Louise Erdrich, Doris Lessing, Jane Smiley, Anna Akhmatova, Anne Sexton, Kate Millet, Harper Lee (can’t deny)
E. Dickinson, Mary Oliver, Eliz Bishop (esp. One Art), Dorothy Parker, Rita Williams (IfCreekDon’tRise)
Tony Morrison, Amy Bloom, Jeanette Winterson, Jorie Graham, Joan Didion, Annie Proulx, Annie Dillard, deBeauvior
Coming on here late but wanted to throw Lisa Simpson into the mix. Vegetarian, pacifist, Buddhist, and total feminist. Always thinking for herself and doing her own thing, she has been my hero for years!