Low Maintenance, High Standards

30 DAYS OF BOOKS — DAY 16: YOUR TOP 5 FAVORITE FEMALE CHARACTERS

• ELIZABETH BENNET - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813) 

“You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner…You could not have made the offer of your hand in any possible way that would have tempted me to accept it…From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.”

• SCARLETT O’HARA - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1936)

“After all, tomorrow is another day!”

• HERMIONE GRANGER - The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling (1997-2007)

“I hope you’re pleased with yourselves. We could have all been killed — or worse, expelled.”

• JO MARCH - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868)

“I’ll try and be what he loves to call me, ‘a little woman,’ and not be rough and wild; but do my duty here instead of wanting to be somewhere else.”

• KATNISS EVERDEEN - The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins (2008-2010)

“Fire is catching!…And if we burn, you burn with us!”