When I was younger there were several people – well, ok, characters and/or actresses – that I wanted to “be like.” This phase started when I was probably 11… I can’t say when it ended, really. I just stopped thinking that emulating or wishful thinking were good things.
This is a really weird mix of badass women and supremely graceful, classy women. Intellectually speaking, I suppose Simone de Beauvoir, Adrienne Rich, Betty Friedan and let’s not forget Erma Bombeck — they are harder to find on YouTube…
In no particular order… Chrissie Hynde for her rawness:
Holly GoLightly… what girl didn’t want to be her?
Katherine Hepburn, in any role on any day but more as a human being… this is the first movie I ever saw her in… you old poop!
College days… Anaïs Nin. I remember why — it was mostly for the passionate way she lived her life, even if there was tremendous pain, too.
Ripley, from the first Alien movie:
