The Nancy Drew canon

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In my house our big built in book case has a whole shelf dedicated to yellow-spined Nancy Drew books. My wife says these books were formative for her.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is also one of my heros (maybe if polygamy were the norm and not so immoral I would try to marry her too). I read this in the linked Wikipedia article about her:

"It was in these books that Ayaan would be exposed to Western culture and values for the first time, including the Nancy Drew series, which portrayed a fictional female character who solved mysteries and operated freely as an equal to her male counterparts. According to Hirsi Ali, these stories would play a pivotal role in her redefining what it meant to be a Westerner."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali

I bet if you poked around you'd find McConkie saying Nancy Drew is the devil's work.