But it is also true that women still give and take large dowries at weddings, ask children to put up with sexual harassment from male members of the family, force daughters into marriages of convenience, entreat women to put up with domestic violence, do not pardon female infertility or the birth of a female child, draw the acceptable standards of beauty and point an accusing finger at the victim of sexual harassment.

My top five most feminist characters from Books –
1. Elizabeth Bennet – Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”
2. Labonyalata – Rabindranath Tagore’s “Sheshere Kobita”
3. Jo March – Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women”
4. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
5. Hester Prynne – Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter”

If I had to pick another five, I’d say
6. Anne of Green Gables – Anne of Green Gables – Lucy Montgomery
7. Ramona Quimby – Beverly Cleary
8. Tess of D’Ubervilles – Thomas Hardy
9. Frances – The Sweetest Dream – Doris Lessing
10. Draupadi – The Mahabharata – Vyasa