For me, it is Skeeter Phelan from 'The Help'. While there are many inspirational women in that book, in fact it's what the whole thing is about, Skeeter is the one I most relate to. At the start of the book, she is only beginning to see the injustice of the Deep South in the 60s. She could have ignored the horrible situation if she'd wanted to but instead she chose to put her own neck on the line to help strangers, many of whom hated her for the status she'd been born in.
She and the housekeeper of her best friend get together to write a book about the experiences of black housekeepers in the neighbourhood. She is risking a large part of her life - her reputation in doing this and to many white women that would have been enough to scare them.
She also breaks up with Stuart, who is one of the only men in America taller than her, because he doesn't share her fury over the race situation. Her mother is constantly making her think that he is the only man who will ever suit her and it takes a lot of guts to go against that.
I know that she is probably not the most inspirational person in that book but she is the one most like me and therefore she is the one who inspires me personally the most.
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