Famously Insecure Women in Lit.

I was thinking this would be a good title for a college course I would like to teach. I wonder if someone would like to hire me as an adjunct faculty to do just this (probably not, unless it is the University of I Live on an Island). I came up with this class today as I was looking at recent pictures of myself and wondering who that woman is with collagen injected into multiple locations spread across her entire face. And thighs. Hhmmmm (heavy sigh)...aren't we, as women, so often motivated by the things in our lives that make us the most insecure? I mean, if I wanted to still wear maternity clothes, I wouldn't have stopped being pregnant, you know what I mean? 

Here are some women who I think can relate to this womanly plight of insecurity:

1. Bridget Jones. I read Bridget Jones's Diary when I was in college and it was as if I had finally met a woman who could measure up to my mania. As an English major who wanted to be a writer, I spent many nights cooped up in a computer lab under the guise of "writing a paper". But really I was mostly surfing the internet for exotic job postings in Europe or coming up with elaborate stories about what my life would be like if I were dating or married to some guy sitting at the computer behind me. I got up to go to the bathroom A LOT. Bridget was my soul mate.

2. Lady Macbeth. Talk about a hot mess. Like many women (myself included, on occasion) Lady M's insecurities reach beyond her physical being to encompass her total realm of influence--namely, her husband. She is a total control freak. I mean, when was the last time you killed someone to raise your own status and make yourself feel better? Huh?

3.  Daisy Buchanan. She is married, yet enters into a love affair with Gatsby anyway due to his charm and apparent wealth. Then she runs over her husband's mistress with Gatsby's car and speeds away. Need I say more?

Do you know who is not insecure? Nancy Drew. Did you know that she is perpetually a teenager? I have never met a teenage girl (and trust me, I've met a few) with her kind of confidence and poise.  And she is so insightful.  Now I want to be Tina Fey and Nancy Drew.