PLAYED BY: Linda Hamilton
MARITAL STATUS/OCCUPATION: Single/warrior
MATERNAL QUALITY WE ADMIRE: Ferocity. The scared and wide-eyed Sarah we see in the first Terminator movie is nothing like the Sarah 10 years later in T2 — this girl is a lean, mean fighting machine. Thing is, her fixation on averting a future apocalypse has led to her institutionalization — and separation from the son whose life she is tasked with protecting. Okay, she’s probably not the mom you want helping with a bake sale, but if you’re ever in the need for someone who can kill a man in five seconds…
TO A SCIENTIST WHOSE WORK WILL RESULT IN THE CREATION OF SKYNET: ““How are you supposed to know? F—ing men like you built the hydrogen bomb. Men like you thought it up. You think you’re so creative. You don’t know what it’s like to really create something; to create a life; to feel it growing inside you. All you know how to create is death…”
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