Favourite Female TV Characters

Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison

Hilarie Burton as Peyton Sawyer

“I want to draw something that means something to someone, you know? I want to draw blind faith, or a fading summer, or just a moment of clarity. It’s like when you go and you see a really great band live for the first time, and nobody’s saying it but everybody’s thinking it: “We have something to believe in again." I want to draw that feeling, but I can’t.”

Shiri Appleby as Liz Parker

"The tough thing about following your heart is what people forget to mention, that sometimes your heart takes you to places you shouldn't be, places that are as scary as they are exciting and as dangerous as they are alluring, and sometimes your heart takes you to places that can never lead to a happy ending. And that's not even the difficult part. The difficult part is when you follow your heart, you leave normal, you go into the unknown. And once you do, you can never go back."



Majandra Delfino as Maria DeLuca

"The thing is, we don't know anything about these Czechoslovakians. Are they good Czechoslovakians? Are they bad Czechoslovakians? We don't know. They're just random Czechoslovakians. For all we know, they don't have their passport."

Mary-Louise Parker as Nancy Botwin

"Been there. Done that. Fucked it up. Twice."

Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope

Claire Danes as Angela Chase

"Sometimes someone says something really small... and it just fits into this empty place in your heart."

Laura Dern as Amy Jellicoe

"I've lived in a world full of not-good-enough mothers. Imperfect, bad mothers. But the mother is a child, too. She is a child. I will stop waiting for you to be the perfect mother. I will be patient with you. I will be tender. I will be the mother I wanted you to be."

Summer Glau as Cameron Phillips

"I don't think you understand how we work. I have sensation. I feel. I wouldn't be worth much if I couldn't feel."

Candice Accola as Caroline Forbes

"It's hard for me to show kindness to people that hate me. I'm not that evolved."

Julia Whelan as Grace Manning

"You know, she's just the kind of person that everybody worries whether she has a ride home. And, I guess, I'm just the sort of person people assume can walk."