Posted by pinkeye on May 9, 2005, at 21:46:49
In reply to Re: Taking a break for couple of days. » pinkeye, posted by Dinah on May 9, 2005, at 21:40:04
Thanks Dinah.. that actually makes sense. Growing up I never had good role models. In my society, atleast in the circle of my family, women didn't work. And my father wanted me to be a career oriented woman, so I really didn't have anybody to look at and mold myself.
For a long time, I used to have the heroine in one of the novels that my dad like - perhaps you might know - Dagny Taggart in "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand. Because my dad liked her and I was anyway supposed to become like her. So I had her as a role model for a long time.
But I think she is not a good emotional role model, and then once I came to college, and found that was not working, I had to look for some thing else. So I used to observe other students, and had them as a role model. And then I liked Daniel Steel's novels and their heroines, and that is what I mostly try to go by. And I kept Sound of Music heroine for sometime as a role model. But I think most of all, now I like Daniel Steel novels heroines. I like the elegant and poised and good and at the same time emotionally happy and strong woman she portrays. How they overcome difficulties and manage to always find some good family and a career. I like that portrayal a lot.
As to a daughter, I don't know. Not too many that I know of it.
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