A-Z Fictional Girls' Names

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Monica Reyes (X Files)

Nelly Dean (Wuthering Heights)

Ophelia (Hamlet)


The fair Ophelia!—Nymph, in thy orisons. Be all my sins remembered.

Ohhhh, quotes!

Portia, The Merchant of Venice

The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.

Queen of the Night (Zauberflöte, Mozart):





Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen,
Tod und Verzweiflung flammet um mich her!
Fühlt nicht durch dich Sarastro Todesschmerzen,
So bist du meine Tochter nimmermehr:

Verstossen sei auf ewig,
Verlassen sei auf ewig,
Zertrümmert sei'n auf ewig
Alle Bande der Natur.

Wenn nicht durch dich Sarastro wird erblassen!
Hört, Rachegötter, hört der Mutter Schwur!

Regan (King Lear)

You should be ruled and led
By some discretion that discerns your state
Better than you yourself

It's now a rule that each poster include a quote and/or picture. Or it ought to be.

S is for Scheherazade:



She had perused the works of the poets and knew them by heart; she had studied philosophy and the sciences, arts and accomplishments; and she was pleasant and polite, wise and witty, well read and well bred.

Tess Durbeyfield (Tess of the D'Ubervilles, Thomas Hardy, 1891)

How very lovable her face was to him. Yet there was nothing ethereal about it; all was real vitality, real warmth, real incarnation. And it was in her mouth that this culminated. Eyes almost as deep and speaking he had seen before, and cheeks perhaps as fair; brows as arched, a chin and throat almost as shapely; her mouth he had seen nothing to equal on the face of the earth.

Ursula Brangwen (The Rainbow, DH Lawrence, 1915)

She wanted so many things. She wanted to read great, beautiful books, and to be rich with them; she wanted to see beautiful things, and have the joy of them for ever; she wanted to know beautiful, free people ... but there always remained a want she could put no name to. It was so difficult. There was so much beauty to meet and surpass, and one never knew where one was going.

Your avatar looks like Ursula.

Viola (Twelfth Night)

Make me a willow cabin at your gate
And call upon my soul within the house,
Write loyal cantons of contemned love,
And sing them loud even in the dead of night;
Halloo your name to the reverberate hills,
And make the babbling gossip of the air
Cry out ’Olivia!’ O, you should not rest
Between the elements of air and earth
But you should pity me.

Willow Rosenberg (Buffy)

Xanthe Canning (Neighbours)

Yelana, Frozen II

Zora (Star Trek villain).