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"Like Erin, I also attended the Glamour Women of the Year event last night and had my lid flipped. To be sure, there was plenty of eye candy (personal highlight: Natalie Portman), but after a certain point even an unapologetic ogler like me stopped looking and started listening. I was sitting in the upper balcony surrounded by hundreds of teenage girls from local NYC schools, and I could practically feel their self-confidence swell with each new speaker. Pretty powerful stuff. On the train ride home I started thinking about women I admire, and somehow I ended up at Ramona Quimby.Double-Chin Dodge, The Magnificent Meanley and Joanna &amp;quot;Cupid&amp;quot; Goddard outside Carnegie Hall.You remember Ramona, right? Sister of Beezus, resident of Kilickitat Street and Beverly Cleary&amp;#x27;s most beloved creation (narrowly edging out Ralph S. Mouse). I was introduced to her by my mother, the woman I most admire, whose love of reading and libraries profoundly influenced my life. Nowadays my literary heroes are Hemingway uber-dudes like Jake Barnes and Nick Adams, but when you add it all up I think Ramona is tougher than any of those guys. Sure, they may have braved enemy fire, but did they have the guts (which is Ramona&amp;#x27;s favorite &amp;quot;bad word&amp;quot; - how times have changed) to stand up to the formidable Mrs. Griggs? If I ever have daughters, you can be sure I will introduce them to my old friend Ramona. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next. Ramona the Pest Last night I was surrounded by women who could not wait - Ramona would have fit right in. Who is your favorite literary heroine? Elizabeth Bennet? Antonia Shimerda? Carrie Bradshaw? Let us know who inspired you."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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