I'm gonna need a moment. https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1247185212825632769

I hate, BTW, that she's constantly being remembered as "Pussy Galore." She was a blackbelt in judo. She was a motorcycle messenger during the war. She was a major feminist icon. She was far more than a Bond girl and she deserves to be remembered for far more.

Cathy Gale as a figure was not major in America, but her influence was far-reaching. She was the first female character in a major TV show to be treated as an equal to her male counterpart and that was BECAUSE of Honor Blackman.

She insisted on wearing black leather during The Avengers not because men liked it but because it protected her when she had to fall on hard floors.

She once knocked out a professional wrestler (on accident).

She called Sean Connery a hypocrite.

She learned both elocution and boxing as a teenager. When her father hit her for wearing lipstick, she laid him out. He never hit her again.

She was a goddamn legend.