Claremont’s work on [Storm and Kitty Pryde], and on Jean Grey and Emma Frost, on Dazzler, Rogue, and Psylocke, on Rachel Summers, Dani Moonstar, Magik and Jubilee, are the very foundation of the modern X-Men. Because Claremont made these characters complex and compelling, and because he did not limit the sort of stories they could be used to tell, the women of the X-Men are the X-Men.

“Mutant Women of Earth: How Chris Claremont Reinvented the Female Superhero” by Andrew Wheeler