Some Love for Great Women
Jan. 15th, 2009 03:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deelaundryI have been thinking about women a lot today. Let's do some celebrating. Tell me about your favorite real and fictional women, and why they are so awesome.
Forgot to mention this is a meme. Post to your own journal if you want to spread the love.
I'll start:
My grandmother is awesome. She played basketball throughout high school and college. In her late teens, she was dating a boy who didn't treat her as well as she wanted so she eloped with her second cousin instead. After she married, she still finished her bachelor's degree and then went on and got her master's (rare for the 1930s). She is the strongest, most positive, most interesting person. When I was in college, after my grandfather had died, she had a more active love life than I did, dating more than one man at once (including that boy from her teens, who was better to her this time around), before happily re-marrying. She loves people and hates computers, and she's very, very awesome.
Fictional women
Kinsey Milhone. The series she's in has gotten kind of blah, this far down the alphabet, but I still like this character. Independent and smart, she reminds me of my mother.
Nicky Grant from Big Love. I don't like her, and I wouldn't want to be her friend, but I love her. She is sneaky, manipulative, arrogant, and complex, with a strategic genius that has to be seen to be believed.
Anyone Maggie Smith has ever played ever. "It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies."
Forgot to mention this is a meme. Post to your own journal if you want to spread the love.
I'll start:
My grandmother is awesome. She played basketball throughout high school and college. In her late teens, she was dating a boy who didn't treat her as well as she wanted so she eloped with her second cousin instead. After she married, she still finished her bachelor's degree and then went on and got her master's (rare for the 1930s). She is the strongest, most positive, most interesting person. When I was in college, after my grandfather had died, she had a more active love life than I did, dating more than one man at once (including that boy from her teens, who was better to her this time around), before happily re-marrying. She loves people and hates computers, and she's very, very awesome.
Fictional women
Kinsey Milhone. The series she's in has gotten kind of blah, this far down the alphabet, but I still like this character. Independent and smart, she reminds me of my mother.
Nicky Grant from Big Love. I don't like her, and I wouldn't want to be her friend, but I love her. She is sneaky, manipulative, arrogant, and complex, with a strategic genius that has to be seen to be believed.
Anyone Maggie Smith has ever played ever. "It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies."