>>I'll bet Dagny Taggart was tougher :)

You just had to, didn't you. ;-)

I think I recall ? 2 occasions when Dagny seemed to want a man to tell her what to do/take charge. Certainly Rand had some "interesting" things to say about Dagny...

Lillian moved forward to meet her, studying her with curiosity. They had met before, on infrequent occasions, and she found it strange to see Dagny Taggart wearing an evening gown. It was a black dress with a bodice that fell as a cape over one arm and shoulder, leaving the other bare: the naked shoulder was the gown’s only ornament. Seeing her in the suits she wore, one never thought of Dagny Taggart’s body. The black dress seemed excessively revealing – because it was astonishing to discover that the lines of her shoulder were fragile and beautiful, and that the diamond band on the wrist of her naked arm gave her the most feminine of all aspects: the look of being chained.

Try posting that last idea yourself somewhere and see what you get called. ;-)