6 fictional women you’d actually want at your Galentine’s table!

Here's a list of fictional women who felt layered enough to exist beyond their stories and real enough that you’d genuinely want them in your circle.

Galentine’s Day is always about celebrating the women in our lives, the friends who steady us, challenge us, and show up without ceremony. For me, it’s also about the fictional women who shaped my understanding of friendship long before I had the language for it. These characters were ambitious without being apologetic, emotionally complex without being reduced to clichés, and intelligent in ways that felt earned. Over the years, some of these characters started feeling like standards, reference points for the kind of presence I admired and the kind of conversations I wanted to have. This list is for those women, the ones who might be distant icons but also people I would genuinely want at my Galentine’s table.

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Here are the fictional women I’d love to be friends with and spend Galentine’s Day alongside.

Jo March from Little Women refuses to apologise for wanting a big life

She is messy, ambitious, impatient, occasionally contradictory, and completely unwilling to shrink herself into something more acceptable. What I admire the most about her is that she never treated her hunger for a bigger life as something embarrassing. She wanted to write. She wanted to earn. She wanted to be taken seriously.

There’s something very steadying about a character who doesn’t apologise for that kind of desire. Even now, when I think of her, it is like a reminder that wanting more doesn’t automatically make you ungrateful or difficult.

Fleabag from Fleabag refuses to be edited into a better version of herself

What I like about Fleabag is that she doesn’t pretend to be better than she is. She’s impulsive, she ruins things, she hides behind humour, and she knows she’s doing it. There’s no innocence in her mistakes. She sees herself clearly, even when she doesn’t change immediately. I also admire that the show never tries to clean her up to make her easier to root for. She is allowed to be funny and cruel, generous and selfish, grieving and reckless, sometimes all in the same episode. 

There’s something bold about a woman on screen who doesn’t beg to be understood. She doesn’t explain herself into palatability. She confronts her own contradictions head-on, and that honesty is what makes her difficult to look away from.

Diane Nguyen from BoJack Horseman would never let a conversation stay superficial

Diane has always stood out to me because she is always interrogating herself. Her politics, her relationships, her career, her own motives, nothing escapes scrutiny. She wants to live ethically. She wants her work to matter. She wants to be a version of herself she can respect. And sometimes that pressure makes her spiral. Part of why she connects so deeply is that this tension isn’t exaggerated for drama. The exhaustion of trying to align your values with your choices. The guilt of falling short. The recalibration that follows, we know that it's all real. Diane reflects that internal negotiation many people rarely articulate but definitely experience.

What I admire about her is that she doesn’t romanticise her sadness, even when she’s stuck in it. She confronts her depression, her anger, her hypocrisy. She outgrows people, changes directions and allows herself to evolve without framing it as betrayal of who she used to be. That kind of growth is rarely neat, and the show never pretends it is. As a friend, she would be thoughtful and probing. The kind of person who doesn’t let you get away with vague answers. Conversations would be honest, sometimes uncomfortable, but never shallow. 

Nami from One Piece would make sure we never walk into anything unprepared

What draws me to Nami has never been just her role as the navigator, though she’s brilliant at that, but the way she travels through the world with her eyes open, always calculating, assessing and aware that survival is not guaranteed and trust is never automatic. What makes her interesting to me is that she never performs innocently. She likes money. She likes control. She likes knowing she isn’t at anyone’s mercy. And instead of softening those instincts to appear more virtuous, she owns them. Her confidence is precise and understandable. When she speaks up, it’s because she has already assessed the variables.

Being around someone like that would be clarifying. She wouldn’t encourage reckless optimism or blind faith, she would insist on understanding the map before setting sail. And for me, it's appealing about a friend who values preparation as much as freedom.

Kim Possible from Kim Possible's competence has never intimidated her

If I’m being honest, this article exists because I wanted an excuse to talk about Kim Possible. I grew up watching her, and I loved her in that uncomplicated, absolute way you love a character when you’re young. I wanted to be like her so badly, not just because she saved the world, but because she did it with this steady confidence that never felt loud or forced.

What I’ve always liked about Kim is how naturally capable she is without making a spectacle of it. She saves the world before dinner and still worries about school, friendships, and whether she said the wrong thing earlier. There’s no tortured monologue about being exceptional, no exaggerated struggle to justify her strength. She is good at what she does, she trains for it, she shows up, and she handles it. As a friend, she wouldn’t make everything dramatic. She would handle the situation, send the text, fix the mess, and still check in after. There’s something reassuring about someone who doesn’t spiral under pressure and doesn’t need applause for doing what needs to be done.

Elle Woods from Legally Blonde never confuses femininity with weakness

What makes her compelling isn’t just that she gets into Harvard or wins a case, it’s that she refuses to contort herself into something more palatable in order to be taken seriously. She doesn’t become ambitious out of spite alone. She discovers that she is capable of far more than anyone, including herself, initially assumed, and instead of changing her personality to match that capability, she expands her expectations of herself. She doesn’t abandon who she is to succeed. She succeeds as who she is.

Choosing Elle as a friend would mean choosing someone who believes in her own range and, by extension, believes in yours. She doesn’t treat femininity as a limitation or ambition as a betrayal of it. She holds both without apology. And that kind of self-assurance is difficult not to admire.

Well, that’s for me. Which fictional female character would you invite to your Galentine’s table? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!

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