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(56,912 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)meh.
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)books. Other than that, she is awesome.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Thelma & Louise
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)tblue
(16,350 posts)ConcernedCanuk
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Liked it right up to the point where they took their T-Bird airborne
(sigh)
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Recursion
(56,582 posts)Just speaking for myself
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)I do love me some Patrick O'Brien.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,570 posts)ConcernedCanuk
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RILib
(862 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)until she became crazy with jealousy I really liked Anna Karenina very much... So I would have to say for her kindness, principles and loyalty it would have to be Jane Eyre.
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)Ptah
(32,983 posts)Joanna Brady, Sheriff of Chochise County, Arizona.
Judith Ann (J. A.) Jance (born October 27, 1944) is an American author of mystery and horror novels.
She writes at least three series of novels, centering on retired Seattle Police Department officer
J. P. Beaumont, Arizona county sheriff Joanna Brady, and Ali Reynolds. The Beaumont and Brady
series intersect in the novel Partner in Crime, which is both the 16th Beaumount mystery and
the 10th Brady mystery. They intersect again in Fire and Ice.
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)Kali
(54,990 posts)blueamy66
(6,795 posts)It was great fun to cruise around the Bisbee area and find places that were written about in Jance's novels.
Also fun to buy an autographed book in a local bookstore.
Ptah
(32,983 posts)The manager was such a fan, she arranged for J.A.Jance to make a short visit.
Good times.
blueamy66
(6,795 posts)Now I miss Arizona.
I was staying in Tombstone while my guy was working near there so I took a ride to Bisbee and spent all day there alone. It was fun. Of course, I had to return to Tombstone and spend some additional time at Big Nose Kate's. Now that was a fun time!
petronius
(26,580 posts)my book choice...)
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)Last edited Sun Apr 14, 2013, 06:37 AM - Edit history (1)
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)NV Whino
(20,886 posts)Edited to add Kinsey Milhone
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)txwhitedove
(3,922 posts)NV Whino
(20,886 posts)She's not invincible, she's flawed, she's kind, she' you and me and everywoman. Grafton has done a wonderful job of making her a real person.
olddots
(10,237 posts)and not that virgin olive oil either.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...yeah, yeah--four pretty disparate characters...I love 'em all...
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)Welcome!
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)pipi_k
(21,020 posts)Lassie.
That dog had the patience of a saint, what with that little asshole Timmy always getting into trouble all the time.
PS...I know Lassie was really a boy dog, but she was always a girl to me.
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)Xyzse
(8,217 posts)I love Lassie.
Wounded Bear
(58,436 posts)and only three of them were male.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)that they are on their ninth generation Lassie now.
I'm glad to know that not all of them were boys.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)with Tommy Rettig, Jan Clayton, and George Cleveland. For some crazy reason, the original Lassie TV show was renamed Jeff's Collie in syndication. I remember back then when they changed the mom (Jan Clayton) my own mom got angry at the show and wouldn't watch it anymore. Jan Clayton and George Cleveland looked so kind and loving in the original episodes. After a few years they introduced Timmy who played alongside the older Jeff and then phased Jeff (Tommy Rettig) out, got rid of grandpa, and changed the mom.
Of course I loved Lassie as a little kid. I especially loved the closing scene of each show where the credits rolled and Jeff and Lassie were outdoors on a hillside tending a herd of sheep in the bright sun. It was beautiful.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)Kali
(54,990 posts)for movies, anyways
temporary311
(954 posts)Ripley was a bad ass.
olddots
(10,237 posts)how could we forget ?????????
Modesty Blaze ! All the Cat Women ( all fantastic )
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)Loryn
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ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)Kali
(54,990 posts)hunter
(38,263 posts)sheshe2
(83,319 posts)To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)LearnedHand
(3,349 posts)Love her Discworld-by-nose expeditions. And while we're in the neighborhood, Mercedes Thompson ain't bad, neither
baldguy
(36,649 posts)Rhiannon12866
(202,970 posts)Yukari Yakumo
(3,013 posts)Marisa Kirisame
Yuuka Kazami
Yukari Yakumo
Major Nikon
(36,814 posts)Neoma
(10,039 posts)Major Nikon
(36,814 posts)LearnedHand
(3,349 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,103 posts)Jane Fonda
libodem
(19,288 posts)Bounty hunter.
Behind the Aegis
(53,823 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)O?
Mary Hill?
cemaphonic
(4,138 posts)My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all, I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. Everyone else in our family is dead.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)'We Have Always Lived in the Castle' is an interesting little novel - not quite horror, but certainly horrific in some respects, and written in such a deadpan style that you don't really know how to take it.
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)As in "Dustin Hoffman". Wearing scarves and high collared dresses.
Or perhaps these British ladies??
mythology
(9,527 posts)Nest Freemark from the Word and the Void series
Scout Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird
Katherina Minola (I believe Shakespeare was satirizing gender roles rather than reinforcing them in The Taming of the Shrew.)
Haydee from The Count of Monte Cristo
Veronica Mars from the tv show of the same name.
Lorelai Gilmore from Gilmore Girls
Juno McGruff from Juno
whistler162
(11,155 posts)the last one because I am not sure she could possibly exist given all the hype about her!
a la izquierda
(11,784 posts)Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)Helen Reddy
(998 posts)Alice aka Milla Jovovich
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tblue
(16,350 posts)LeftOfSelf-Centered
(776 posts)In part probably because Gibson hardly ever uses her last name.
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)These is my Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
Based on the real-life exploits of the author's great-grandmother, this fictionalized diary vividly details one woman's struggles with life and love in frontier Arizona at the end of the last century. When she begins recording her life, Sarah Prine is an intelligent, headstrong 18-year-old capable of holding her own on her family's settlement near Tucson. Her skill with a rifle fends off a constant barrage of Indian attacks and outlaw assaults. It also attracts a handsome Army captain named Jack Elliot. By the time she's 21, Sarah has recorded her loveless marriage to a family friend, the establishment of a profitable ranch, the birth of her first child?and the death of her husband. The love between Jack and Sarah, which dominates the rest of the tale, has begun to blossom. Fragmented and disjointed in its early chapters, with poor spelling and grammar, Sarah's journal gradually gains in clarity and eloquence as she matures. While this device may frustrate some readers at first, Taylor's deft progression produces the intended reward: she not only tells of her heroine's growth, but she shows it through Sarah's writing and insights. The result is a compelling portrait of an enduring love, the rough old West and a memorable pioneer.
more at link:
http://www.amazon.com/These-Words-Diary-Sarah-1881-1901/dp/0061458031
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)Morning Dew
(6,539 posts)Ok, not really.
Good ones mentioned here.
Add Kara Thrace.
Nikia
(11,411 posts)From the Hunger Games
Zorro
(15,691 posts)TV: tossup between Dana Scully and Peta Wilson's Nikita.
Throd
(7,208 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,433 posts)Whisp
(24,096 posts)pintobean
(18,101 posts)DFW
(54,047 posts)(for future reference)
Iggo
(47,486 posts)Always Buffy.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)Keeping in mind that I was in junior high at the time.
Iggo
(47,486 posts)But there was nothing else like it on TV, and also it was great bonding material for me and my 7 yr old niece.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)Just saying that it probably wouldn't have been my thing if not for the presence of Ms. Dushku. Doesn't really have to do with age.
LeftOfSelf-Centered
(776 posts)madamesilverspurs
(15,782 posts)BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)TheBadWolf
(31 posts)exxo1111
(55 posts)ConcernedCanuk
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Saw the movie when I was about 12 or so -
Had one of those boyhood crushes for Hayley Mills for quite a while after that.
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ConcernedCanuk
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played by Elizabeth Montgomery in "Bewitched"
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OxQQme
(2,550 posts)The senior witch.
She shows up in several of Terry Pratchett's Disc World series with her recalcitrant broom that needs to be kick started.
I also have a spot in my heart for Elphaba.
Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)Dash87
(3,220 posts)Spike89
(1,569 posts)I was hooked by Another Roadside Attraction and the string of female characters that followed in Gowgirls, Still Life, Jitterbug Perfume, and Skinny Legs.
Brother Buzz
(36,212 posts)Penny was an accomplished air racer and rated multi-engine pilot, whom Sky trusted to fly the Songbird
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Jo (Little Women). Francie (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn). Hermione Granger (some book series no one's ever heard of).
Off the top of my head ...
Jean Louise Finch
(671 posts)aka Jean Louise Finch (hey, that makes for a good Username!).
HERVEPA
(6,107 posts)hamsterjill
(15,214 posts)Fiddle dee dee!
kwassa
(23,340 posts)Bucky
(53,795 posts)There were times she almost seemed like she could be real.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)at the hands of Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper). Although Frank, admittedly, is also one of my favorite movie characters. Color me ambivalent I guess.
As far as literary heroines, the first that comes to mind is Trace Pennington/Ianthe Covington (she's got kind of a split identity, though not in a "Fight Club" way) in 'Iodine' by Haven Kimmel. Brilliant, beautiful, tragic, and (for the most part) utterly believable. Anyone with a taste for the dark and strange should read 'Iodine' for sure, it's a real mind-fuck of a novel.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)I'd include Fujiko Mine from Lupin III
and Starfire from The New Titans
Shrek
(3,970 posts)Quantess
(27,630 posts)Someone gave me the book but I haven't read it yet.