Some Love for Great Women

I 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.

( A few great fictional women )

Spoiler

EEEEE! Robert Sean Leonard raves about Annie Dudek, and says who he'd cast for a certain plotline that may be explored later this season. SPOILER for what that plotline would be.

Here's the video interview.

PS. I want to hear more about awesome women. Tell me, tell me!