Bechdel Test, was named for the comic strip it came from, penned by Alison Bechdel - but Bechdel credits a friend named Liz Wallace, so maybe it really should be called the Liz Wallace Test...? Anyway, the test is much simpler than the name. To pass it your movie must have the following: a) there are at least two named female characters, who b) talk to each other about c) something other than a man.

I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.

If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.

I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.

Although I am good at enumerating my father’s flaws, it’s hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I expect this is partly because he’s dead, and partly because the bar is lower for fathers than it is for mothers.

I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity