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heroine

noun as in woman noted for courageous acts

noun as in principal female character

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Quilligan continues to be taught in universities and retold in academic books as a cautionary tale of eugenics and public health gone wrong, its plaintiffs hailed as reproductive-rights heroines.

“I am not a heroine of some old story. I cannot hold the knife,” she says meekly.

He added: "Moana 2 exhilarates with its tunefulness, and absolutely romps along from the moment the heroine gets off the island, bound for another adventure on her trusty outrigger canoe."

From BBC

A novelist, she had written the bestselling “Annie Jordan,” about a plucky heroine in boom town Seattle modeled on her pioneer family.

Follow that with a manicure using colors from the OPI collection just like the one our heroines get when they reach the Emerald City.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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