Female Role Models for My Daughter

I've been trying to find female role models and heroes for my daughter, Kiana (10 years old) for a long time, in an attempt to help her see women can be powerful and cool and do great things. None of the them have been good enough for her, none of them won her over. You know what she said about Wonder Woman?  "She's naked, plus how can she run in those shoes? And she doesn't have any cool powers or gadgets!" 

Forget the Disney Princesses!  She ain't waiting for a man to save her! I've introduced her to Xena (my favorite), Black Widow (Avengers), Ryan Stone (astronaut in Gravity) Sydney Bristow (cool CIA Agent in Alias), Olivia Dunham (Smart and intuitive FBI agent in Fringe), Maryam Mirzakhani (smart and cool Iranian Mathematician with a boyish haircut who won the "Nobel" Prize for Math), Hayao Miyazaki's cool girl anime characters, Piper, Prue, Pheobe, Page (4 witches in Charmed).  You name it, I've introduced her to Kiana already!

So she has been into Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Flash, Arrow and even Hulk, cool soccer players, male Kung Fu masters, But no women! Until yesterday!  

And we have a winner!!! Yes! finally!  Drum roll please........Buffy the Vampire Slayer!  Yes! She's cool and well, Ki now wants to be the "Chosen One! Not to kill vampires but all the bad guys!!!" She even likes Willow very much! Simple and naive but smart, cute and a bitching powerful witch with a dark side!

I feel a sense of accomplishment! I know my quest to provide great role models for my girl is not over. But for now, I take a moment of pleasure knowing that we at least have a favorite for now!