One man who writes good women, imho, is Robert Jordan. :startles: And, since WoT is in your interests, I guess you must at least find them acceptable.

I do, indeed. They can be shallow and lost and flawed and desperate, and so can the guys. I think that both his male and female characters show a lot of depth of character, and I really like the societies that he's created. I definitely didn't mind that one of his books took about a thousand pages to describe one day, because I found the story interesting enough to warrent the time spent. I went back and reread the series before the latest came out, and still really enjoyed it, so it's holding up for me, too.