Heroines Quotes

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

— Nora Ephron

I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.

— Cate Blanchett

A dead martyr is just another corpse.

— Leo Gordon

There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“She is all the great heroines of the world in one.”

— Oscar Wilde

No woman is a heroine to her dentist.

— Val McDermid

Some heroines look very glamorous in bikini.

— Sana Khan

Heroes are born to be troublemakers.

— Mason Cooley

I can still love my heroine like i did when i was 26. I can still do the same action scenes.

— Shahrukh Khan

Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book.

— Mark Twain

They want younger girls, not old ones like me, as heroines. This is the tragedy of Bollywood. It is male dominated.

— Himani Shivpuri

I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.

— Julia Quinn

Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?

— Stendhal

“The best heroines, she'd always believed, took their fate into their own hands.”

— Anna Godbersen

Young action heroines feel in service of male gaze, rather than being the full complexity of a human being.

— Esme Creed-Miles

When you talk about heroines and heroes, at the top of the list has got to be the single moms of America.

— Bernie Sanders

“The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear we should not judge.…

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

He had even read Pride and Prejudice--although he had thought that many of the heroine's problems would have been solved if someone…

— Lynn Viehl

We dream forever unless we awaken. We move from one dream to another, some beautiful, some we're the hero or the heroine,…

— Frederick Lenz

I've always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and…

— Olivia Thirlby

I’m a huge fan of the books myself, so to know that I got to play Clary – who’s a literary heroine…

— Lily Collins

I think in YA there's sometimes a temptation to create heroines who are infinitely resilient and wise and confident because those are…

— Leigh Bardugo

I don't think you're happier if you're thin or beautiful or rich or married. You have to make your own happiness. My…

— Maeve Binchy

The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can…

— Edward de Bono

'Heroine' is about a declining and imbalanced superstar - a very brave and bold role. I wanted to test whether I could…

— Anonymous

My story starts at sea, a perilous voyage to an unknown land. A shipwreck. The wild waters roar and heave. The brave…

— William Shakespeare

I don't think about how many times how many heroines have said 'I love you' to how many heroes on screen and…

— Urmila Matondkar

The heroines in 'That's What She Said' are flawed, messy, damaged, hilarious and culpable and not really concerned about being acceptable to…

— Carrie Preston

A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak…

— Northrop Frye

You will suffer, be tempted, and make mistakes. You will learn for yourself what every heroine has learned: through overcoming challenges come…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

THREE DAYS TO DEAD is one of the best books I've read. Ever. Evy Stone is a heroine's heroine, and I rooted…

— Jackie Morse Kessler

I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She's selfish, she's childish, she's…

— Amber Benson

In How to Be an American Housewife Margaret Dilloway creates an irresistible heroine. Shoko is stubborn, contrary, proud, a wonderful housewife and…

— Margot Livesey

No doubt Carlyle has a propensity to exaggerate the heroic in history, that is, he creates you an ideal hero rather than…

— Henry David Thoreau

...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal…

— Patti Smith

Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the…

— Eva Figes

Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth…

— Brenda Ueland

You can't do a movie without villains. You have to have something for the heroines or anti-heroines to be up against, and…

— Callie Khouri

“The standard heroes and heroines of novels, are personages in whom I could never, from childhood upwards, take an interest, believe to…

— Charlotte Brontë

In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year. It's the story of…

— Stephen King