We need role models who are going to break the mold.
When you've played Buffy - who's such a strong female role model - it's really hard for another female character to compare to her.
There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around.
There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.
At first, being a female role model really terrified me. But it hasn't turned out to be an awful burden. I get a lot of letters from women who tell me that, after watching Xena, they have bought the Harley-Davidson they always wanted or left an abusive relationship.
I think the culture today is very, very different from what it was in the '60s, and I feel lucky that I grew up at a time when I had these very strong female role models.