My 100 Favourite Fictional Females - Part Three
Spunky, silly, and serious - these are my favourite fictional girls. They navigate their coming of age with a combination of bravado, wit and awkwardness. War and violence causes some of them to grow up too soon, or not at all. For others, puberty is their major source of angst. These are not all my favourite girls, some of the others will show up in the next category - Petticoats and Prairie Gals.
(From Left to Right)
Olive (Little Miss Sunshine)
“I'd like to dedicate this to my grandpa, who showed me these moves.”
Sally (Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself)
“Who do you tell when you’re certain that Hitler is alive, retired, and living in Miami Beach?”
Setsuko (Grave of the Fireflies)
"Why must fireflies die so young?"
Christine "Spike" Nelson (Degrassi Jr. High)
“I made a mistake and I'm paying for it. How much longer do I have to keep paying for it? Why can't they leave me alone?”
Lisa (The Simpsons)
“Mom, romance is dead. It was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.”
Jean Louise (To Kill a Mockingbird)
“I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
Ramona (Ramona the Brave)
“How could she stay out of mix-ups when she never knew what would suddenly turn into a mix-up?”
Margaret (Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret)
“Are you there God? It's me, Margaret. I just told my mother I want a bra. Please help me grow God. You know where. I want to be like everyone else.”
Liesel Meminger (The Book Thief)
She was the book thief without the words. Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain
Jo Polniaczek (Facts of Life)
“Uh, in a minute, you're gonna be wearing flared teeth!"
Beatrice ‘Booky’ Thompson (The Scatterbrain Booky)
“I already ate up everything in sight, so that didn’t mean much. But her calling me Booky did. It meant she wasn’t mad at me and I wasn’t going to get heck for anything. And it meant that she loved me. That funny little nickname told me so.”
(From Left to Right)
Olive (Little Miss Sunshine)
“I'd like to dedicate this to my grandpa, who showed me these moves.”
Sally (Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself)
“Who do you tell when you’re certain that Hitler is alive, retired, and living in Miami Beach?”
Setsuko (Grave of the Fireflies)
"Why must fireflies die so young?"
Christine "Spike" Nelson (Degrassi Jr. High)
“I made a mistake and I'm paying for it. How much longer do I have to keep paying for it? Why can't they leave me alone?”
Lisa (The Simpsons)
“Mom, romance is dead. It was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.”
Jean Louise (To Kill a Mockingbird)
“I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
Ramona (Ramona the Brave)
“How could she stay out of mix-ups when she never knew what would suddenly turn into a mix-up?”
Margaret (Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret)
“Are you there God? It's me, Margaret. I just told my mother I want a bra. Please help me grow God. You know where. I want to be like everyone else.”
Liesel Meminger (The Book Thief)
She was the book thief without the words. Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain
Jo Polniaczek (Facts of Life)
“Uh, in a minute, you're gonna be wearing flared teeth!"
Beatrice ‘Booky’ Thompson (The Scatterbrain Booky)
“I already ate up everything in sight, so that didn’t mean much. But her calling me Booky did. It meant she wasn’t mad at me and I wasn’t going to get heck for anything. And it meant that she loved me. That funny little nickname told me so.”