What's a good build for a female diplomatic "talker" character? I would like to use speech as the solution where possible, but for the times when diplomacy is impossible or in hard fights with monsters I would like to not be completely combat inept. Thanks for any build suggestions.

EDIT: This is for Fallout 2, sorry I forgot to mention that.

Take gifted and sex appeal as traits.

S: 5
P: 8
E: 6
C: 8
I: 9
A:10
L: 1

Tag small guns, speech and doctor.

"Where possible". :)
You can actually play the game through without throwing a single punch or firing a shot. Just by talking & running away when talk fails or is unavailable.