- Citations
When courage is in short supply, we look outside ourselves to find it. Sometimes a good book or film will rouse it, or a quiet place, or the example of another person. Hushpuppy, the six-year-old heroine of the movie Beasts of the Southern Wild, is one such inspiration. When her father, to help her face an uncertain future, challenges “WHO da man?!,” her tiny self has learned to respond (and believe) “I’M da man!” In that tradition, we offer a short list of women warriors—some good, some not so—who didn’t back down.