HELEN'S HEROINES: You decide...

I have been writing about heroines since January and have covered a range from George Kirrin to Miss Marple to Rachel Samstat. So this week instead of giving you a fictional heroine who I worship, I'm turning the tables. I want to know who has inspired you.

Has a fictional heroine influenced you to alter the course of your life? Have they encouraged you to be particularly daring? Or spurred you on to change your career? Maybe something else not so life changing but inspiring all the same?

Please comment and tell us. Don't be shy, we really want to know!

HELEN'S HEROINES: You decide... - Comments

  • Lona

    Even LATER to comment but . . . Mary Russell from Laurie R. King&#39s Mary Russell detective series. If I could be anyone in fiction, it would be her. Or Harriet the Spy, who I just thought of right now and is also super smart.

  • Prob wayyyy too late to comment but Margaret Hale from North & South.

  • Jennifer that is exactly what I had in mind. Thanks for sharing. (I&#39ve never read that book so I&#39m off to check it out.)

  • So, this probably isn&#39t what you had in mind, but this is the first thing that comes to my mind: You know in Pearl Buck&#39s The Good Earth, when the farm woman is pregnant and she&#39s working in this rice field, and basically, one day, she just hunkers down and gives birth without telling anyone and then gets back to work? I think of that a lot, whenever I&#39m struggling with something that is painful or that I don&#39t want to do. I say to myself, "Think of O-Lan! If she can freaking give birth and get back to work, then I can finish this damn memo/carry my bags upstairs/bravely talk to someone I don&#39t know!"



    It&#39s sad, but it&#39s true.

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