heroines

The heroines and heroes of such movies as “The Substance” and “A Different Man” look to medical science to make substantial changes, the kind that reshape identity beyond mere aesthetics.

Quilligan continues to be taught in universities and retold in academic books as a cautionary tale of eugenics and public health gone wrong, its plaintiffs hailed as reproductive-rights heroines.

Follow that with a manicure using colors from the OPI collection just like the one our heroines get when they reach the Emerald City.

She worked long, dogged hours and described herself to the Guardian as "stoical and strong" and with a "backbone of steel," like her heroines.

“I feel like the women in her work were always messy and more complex and they were quite flawed or as buttoned up as the rom-com heroines of Hollywood’s golden age,” Kaplan says.