5 Heroines More Badass than Buffy

We live in a golden age of women writing science fiction and fantasy

Danielle Loewen
Books Are Our Superpower
7 min readApr 12, 2021

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Image by Stefan Keller from Pixabay

There weren’t a lot of women kicking ass in the fantasy novels I read growing up. There were a few on tv and a few in the movies (Sigourney Weaver, I will love you forever). But all-in-all I didn’t find what I was looking for until I watched Buffy in my early 20s.

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