Buffy the vampire slayer Quote by Seanan McGuire

Being on Buffy really spoiled me because it's so rare to have a female protagonist like that.

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

“The show tries to offer its young female characters postfeminist identities that break down gender boundaries and hybridize gendered characteristics to produce new versions…

— Lorna Jowett

When you've played Buffy - who's such a strong female role model - it's really hard for another female character to compare to her.

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

“All I wanted to do was hide away from the world, but I still had a role to play. I had to be 'Girl…

— Girl A

When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I also wanted to be very careful to surround her with men…

— Joss Whedon

“She alone was left standing, amid the accumulated riches of her mansion, while a host of men lay stricken at her feet. Like those…

— Emile Zola

Buffy's high school was built on top of a vortex of evil, the Hellmouth. And whose wasn't?

— Sarah Vowell

“she told Mary Lou about the curse that had plagued the women in her family for generations. Wild girls, they were called. Temptresses. Witches.…

— Libba Bray

The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary,…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“This is from me. For all the thousands of bad guys in your life." She gave a meaningful look to Ezra. Then she smugly…

— Tracy Lynn

“She was no longer a child, to be cowed or forced into submission, but a grown woman with a definite purpose and an invincible…

— Kamala Markandaya

“She was a virgin and a warrior, disdainful of the male, which was what eventually convinced people that she really must be off her…

— Émile Zola