"Professor Maathai's departure is untimely and a very great loss to all who knew her – as a mother, relative, co-worker, colleague, role model, and heroine; or who admired her determination to make the world a more peaceful, healthier, and better place," the statement from her organisation said.
She was everyone's role model and heroine.
And on the international scene, the new-look 007 has a role model and potential partner: the heroine of The Adventure of Iron Pussy, a Thai espionage pastiche directed by arthouse wunderkind Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Mark Twain once called Dodgson his "dream-brother," and it is surely the case that Huck and Alice, the hero and heroine of the two best children's books of the nineteenth century, have become models for heroes and heroines of grown-up books in the twentieth century.
But they also found photographs by Robert Capa taken during the Spanish Civil War, 26 letters written by Adriana Ivancich, the young Italian countess who was the subject of Hemingway's infatuation and reportedly the model for the heroine in "Over the River and Into the Trees".
Other substances used included amphetamines (9.4%), volatile inhalants (9.1%), sedatives (3.8%), tranquillizers (2.3%), cocaine (2.3%), and heroine (1.3%).
In schools, all subjects provide opportunities to source role models, from literary heroes and heroines to scientific pioneers.
The Marvel comics are all modeled on the heroes and heroines, the gods and the goddesses or mythology since the beginning of time.
Azamukazaru no ki ("Diary Without Deceit") covered the personally tormented years of 1893 97, during which he married and was deserted by his first wife, who later served as the model for the heroine of the novel Aru onna (1919; A Certain Woman) by Arishima Takeo.
She is said to have been the model for the heroine of George Meredith's novel Diana of the Crossways (1885).
Even so, when inquisitive people asked him who served as model for his heroine, Flaubert replied, "Madame Bovary is myself".
