Hermione Granger March Madness Leia Organa Violet Baudelaire Wonder Women Ellen Ripley

Arya Stark River Tam

Fa Mulan Eleven

Elizabeth Bennet Imperator Furiosa

Merida of DunBroch Lisbeth Salander

Katniss Everdeen Michonne

Aloy Kara “Starbuck”Thrace

Buffy Summers Olivia Pope

Sabrina Spellman Peggy Olson

Hester Prynne Leslie Knope

June Osborne Liz Lemon

Maeve Millay River Song

Dolores Abernathy Ciri

Diana Prince Galadriel “Wonder Woman” Carol Danvers Daenerys Targaryen “Captain Marvel” Aloy (Horizon Zero Dawn) “I will not be worshipped. Hermione Granger (Harry Potter) “Books! And River Song (Doctor Who) “I was on my way to this gay I am not your annointed. I don’t belong to you. There’s cleverness! There are more important things—Friendship! Gypsy bar mitzvah for the disabled when I suddenly a whole world beyond your borders, whole tribes of And bravery!” thought ‘Gosh, the Third Reich’s a bit rubbish. I think people just as good as you and it is all in danger. It’s a I’ll kill the Fuehrer.’ Who’s with me?” world worth fighting for. Not just here. Everywhere.” Hester Prynne (The Scarlet Letter) “Many people refused to interpret the scarlet A by its original River Tam (Firefly) “No power in the ‘verse can Arya Stark (A Song of Ice and Fire) “Fear cuts deeper signification. They said that it meant Able; so strong was stop me.” than swords.” Hester Prynne, with a woman’s strength.” Sabrina Spellman (The Chilling Adventures of Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) “There is Imperator Furiosa (Mad Max) “Out here, everything Sabrina) “There is another path for me, just as there only one thing on this Earth more powerful than evil. hurts. You wanna get through this? Do as I say. Now pick was for my father and mother. A third way. And even if And that’s us.” up what you can and run.” there isn’t, my name is Sabrina Spellman, and I will not sign it away.” Carol Danvers “Captain Marvel” (Marvel Comics) June Osborne (The Handmaid’s Tale) “It’s their own “Have you ever seen a little girl run so fast she falls fault. They should never have given us uniforms if they Violet Baudelaire (A Series of Unfortunate Events) “In down? There’s an instant, a fraction of a second before didn’t want us to be an army.” a world of abandoned items and discarded materials, the world catches hold of her again... A moment when Violet knew there was always something. Something she’s outrun every doubt and fear she’s ever had about Kara “Starbuck” Thrace (Battlestar Galactica) she could fashion into nearly any device for nearly every herself and she flies. In that one moment, every little “Everyone I know is fighting to get back what they had. occasion.” girl flies.” I’m fighting because I don’t know how to do anything else.” Ciri (The Witcher) “I’m alive, she thought. So it’s not How It Works... the end of the fight. The fight only ends with death; Katniss Everdeen (The Hunger Games) “Your stylist Just because they’re fictional, doesn’t mean they everything else is just an interruption.” turned out to be prophetic in his wardrobe choice. Katniss are any less important! For Women’s History Month Everdeen, the girl who was on fire, you have provided a we are taking a look at some of the best female role Daenerys Targaryen (A Song of Ice and Fire) spark that, left unattended, may grow to an inferno that models in fiction from books, movies, TV shows, “Lannister, Targaryen, Baratheon, Stark, Tyrell they’re destroys Panem.” and video games while celebrating the actors who all just spokes on a wheel. This one’s on top, then that brought them to life. one’s on top and on and on it spins crushing those on Leia Organa (Star Wars) “Someone has to save our skins. the ground... I’m not going to stop the wheel. I’m going Into the garbage chute, fly boy.” to break the wheel.” In February — Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation) “We have to Fill-in a March Madness bracket with your Diana Prince “Wonder Woman” (DC Comics) remember what’s important in life: friends, waffles, and predictions of which characters will win against “I am willing to fight for those who cannot fight for work. Or waffles, friends, and work. But work has to each other and submit it to the library before themselves.” come third.” February 28th. Don’t forget to include a winner! And make a copy for yourself if you want to follow Dolores Abernathy (Westworld) “Under all these Lisbeth Salander (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) along! lives I’ve lived something else has been growing. I’ve “She had discovered that the most effective method of evolved into something new. And I have one last role to keeping the fear at bay was to fantasize about something play. Myself.” that gave her a feeling of strength. She closed her eyes In March — and conjured up the smell of gasoline.” Each day in March vote on your favorite characters Eleven (Stranger Things) “Friends don’t lie.” through match-ups posted on our Facebook and Liz Lemon (30 Rock) “I just want to start a relationship Twitter pages or in person. The winner will move Ellen Ripley (Alien) “Get away from her, you— ” about 12 years in, when you don’t have to try anymore onto the next round . and you can just sit around and watch TV and go to bed Elizabeth Bennet (Pride and Prejudice) “There is without anyone trying any funny business.” Outcome — a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be The person who most closely predicts the final frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises Maeve Millay (Westworld) “At first, I thought you and outcome on March 31st will win two movie tickets at every attempt to intimidate me.” the others were gods. Then I realized you’re just men. And I know men.” to Holiday Cinema Wallingford. Fa Mulan (Disney’s Mulan) “The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.” Merida of DunBroch (Disney-Pixar’s Brave) “You control First and Last Name: your destiny—you don’t need magic to do it. And there Galadriel (The Lord of the Rings) “‘You will give me are no magical shortcuts to solving your problems.” the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful Micchone (The Walking Dead) “Anger makes you stupid. Telephone: and terrible as the Morning and the Night!’ She stood Stupid gets you killed.” before Frodo seeming now tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful. Olivia Pope (Scandal) “It’s handled.” Then she let her hand fall, and the light faded, and Email: suddenly she laughed again, and lo! she was shrunken: Peggy Olson (Mad Men) “If you don’t like what they’re a slender elf-woman, clad in simple white, whose gentle saying, change the conversation.” voice was soft and sad. ‘I pass the test,’ she said.