# Favorite Fictional Heroine? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 7, 2000, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-heroine/36043 "2000-10-07T04:44:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2000, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-heroine/36043/21 "2000-10-07T21:09:07Z")
i’m going a diffrent route here. kathy (don’t call me kathy) mallory from carol o’connell’s series. the sisters, mouse and sister from ann george’s series. ginger barnes from the main line murder series. ---
**Author:** ![Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fairy_Princess_Kitty)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2000, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-heroine/36043/22 "2000-10-07T21:13:08Z")
Daenerys was a good character I guess, but since I’ve only read the first book she doesn’t seem to be too great I think I like Arya so much better, now that girl had spunk. Kitty ---
**Author:** ![Eo\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Eo\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eo_Echo)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2000, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-heroine/36043/23 "2000-10-07T21:21:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AuntiePam \* > **Responses seem to be mostly from fantasy series – why is that? The responders read fantasy? Or they’re the books with the best female characters?** I don’t know about that. My own choice comes from the pages of Stephen King–Rosie McClendon from “Rose Madder.” I was so taken by that character as well as by the novel as a whole that I wrote a song about it (“Lady Rose,” included on my band Katzi’s final album “Pull.”) It’s a great novel, definitely one of my favorites. ---
**Author:** ![User\_10K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@User\_10K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/User_10K)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2000, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-heroine/36043/24 "2000-10-07T22:43:28Z")
I like the character in “There’s Something About Mary”. That’s my kind of heroine (anti-heroine?) ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2000, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-heroine/36043/25 "2000-10-07T22:53:39Z")
**Molly Kolodtny** from William Gibson’s _Neuromancer_ trilogy. **Chia Pet McKenzie** from William Gibson’s _Idoru_. **Sonya Blue** , from the Nancy Collins vampire books. **Genevieve Dieudonne** from Kim Newman’s _Anno Dracula_. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-heroine/36043/26 "2000-10-08T02:12:16Z")
The wife of Casubon in **Middlemarch**. The woman professor in the movie **House of Games**. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-heroine/36043/27 "2000-10-08T03:04:03Z")
Zenster – First one’s Dorothea Brooke; don’t know about the second, but I’m sure somebody will. My pick: Elizabeth Bennett ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-heroine/36043/28 "2000-10-08T03:43:16Z")
Astrid from White Oleander. ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-heroine/36043/29 "2000-10-08T03:52:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zenster \* > \*\* > > The woman professor in the movie **House of Games**. > > \*\* Dr. Margaret Ford as played by Lindsay Crouse. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-heroine/36043/30 "2000-10-08T04:08:52Z")
Having been reading everything I can by Octavia Butler lately, my current favorite is Lauren Oya Olamina, from _The Parable of the Sower_ and _The parable of the Talents_ ---
**Author:** ![Narile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@Narile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Narile)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-heroine/36043/31 "2000-10-08T06:56:02Z")
magdaline > [@](#): > > Jamethiel from P.C. Hodgell’s Dark of the Moon & God Stalk. I doubly support this one, she was one coool customer. To bad P.C. Hodgell got screwed so badly by her publisher. I wanted more of that series, now I can’t even get the first two books. (My old library had them, and then some A\*\*hole stole them, grrrrrrrr.) ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-heroine/36043/32 "2000-10-08T07:31:09Z")
Define heroine. oh well, I’ll go with my own. Dolores Haze Rosalind from As You Like It Nichola Six from London Feilds Katherine Howard from The Fifth Queen Since there seem to be a lot of science fiction: Trillian from, well mostly from Life,the Universe and Everything, where she saves all three from total distruction. ---
**Author:** ![nadin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/46a35a/32.png) [@nadin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nadin)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-heroine/36043/33 "2000-10-08T12:40:23Z")
My favourite heroines are in Iain Banks novels - The Doctor in “Inversion” Sharrow in “Against a Dark Background” Angela in “The Bridge”. All very strong women who can be vulnerable at the same time. Smart, calm under pressure and not afraid to make difficult choices. I wanna be like that when I grow up! I always think that his books would make great films if done properly, someone is going to make “The Bridge” and I don’t know if I want to see it or not. It would destroy the images of the characters and locations in my mind like “the Beach” which completely ruined the book for me. Also I would hate for someone to mess around with the plots because it made “better” drama. ---
**Author:** ![Ankh\_Too](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Ankh\_Too](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ankh_Too)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-heroine/36043/34 "2000-10-08T13:18:32Z")
Cordelia Naismith from Louis McMaster’s “Vorkosigan” series ---
**Author:** ![Ankh\_Too](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Ankh\_Too](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ankh_Too)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-heroine/36043/35 "2000-10-08T13:19:50Z")
Damnit, Lois, not Lo **u** is. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-heroine/36043/36 "2000-10-08T20:54:58Z")
I’ve always been partial to Mara Jade in the numerous _Star Wars_ novels. Also found Belindi Kalenda (a much lesser-used character) to be intriguing. [shameless plug] But, of course, my favorite heroines are the ones that I devlop on my own… feel free to check out some of the stories on my website to get a better idea. [/shameless plug] ---
**Author:** ![Jedi\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@Jedi\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jedi_Girl)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-heroine/36043/37 "2000-10-09T05:45:49Z")
Mara jade is the BEST star wars female character!! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-heroine/36043/38 "2000-10-09T18:10:33Z")
Christa Cruitaire from Gael Baudino’s novel “Gossamer Axe” Nova Kane from the old E-Man comic Leiko Wu from the old Master of Kung Fu comic Penelope and Circe from The Odyssey Effie from “The Maltese Falcon” Kinsey Milhone Sand Saref and Silk Satin from “The Spirit” Cordelia Gray from P.D. James’ novels “An Unsuitable Job for a Woman” and “The Skull Beneath the Skin” Elizabeth Bennett from Jane Austin’s “Pride and Prejudice” Two Doc Savage heroines: Hannah the Pirate “Mystery on Happy Bones” and Toni Lash from “The Devil Genghis” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-heroine/36043/39 "2000-10-09T18:15:07Z")
Christa Cruitaire from Gael Baudino’s novel “Gossamer Axe” Nova Kane from the old E-Man comic Leiko Wu from the old Master of Kung Fu comic Penelope and Circe from The Odyssey Effie from “The Maltese Falcon” Kinsey Milhone Sand Saref and Silk Satin from “The Spirit” Cordelia Gray from P.D. James’ novels “An Unsuitable Job for a Woman” and “The Skull Beneath the Skin” Elizabeth Bennett from Jane Austin’s “Pride and Prejudice” Two Doc Savage heroines: Hannah the Pirate “Mystery on Happy Bones” and Toni Lash from “The Devil Genghis” ---
**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-heroine/36043/40 "2000-10-09T18:41:14Z")
Dr Julia Hoffman from _Dark Shadows_ Cirocco Jones from the _Titan_ trilogy And, Maggy, I gotta go with Meg Murry’s mom. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-heroine/36043.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-heroine/36043.md?page=3)