| Formative Fictional Females | ||||||
| This list is all about the characters I saw on TV or in the movies and read about in books that helped (and are still helping) form me into the zany chica I am today. Sure, I had real-life role models, too, but when you grow up in a city of less than 10,000 people sometimes you need some help from the outside. | ||||||
Annie, Lil' Orphan Annie Darlene Conner, Roseanne Melissa Stedman, thirtysomething Corey Flood, Say Anything Vickie Miner, Reality Bites Wonder Woman Daria Morgendorffer of Beavis and Butt-head and Daria Becca Thatcher, Life Goes On Emma, Girls Town Anne Romano, One Day at a Time Lorelai Gilmore, Gilmore Girls Harriet, Harriet the Spy Jo, Little Women Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House in the Big Woods, et al Clarissa Darling, Clarissa Explains it All Marlys, various Lynda Barry comic books Lydia Deitz, Beetlejuice Thelma Dickinson and Louise Sawyer, Thelma and Louise Jennifer Keaton, Family Ties |
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