“Even if we never read a second volume of a book, the characters continue to live on and on and on, and… — Cat Winters Copy Share Image
If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard? — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them. — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
I won't do this movie because I don't believe the love story," she told Selznick. "The heroine is an intellectual woman, and… — Ingrid Bergman Copy Share Image
I was never career-oriented, not in the way other heroines are. Of course, I took my work seriously. But I never solicited… — Namrata Shirodkar Copy Share Image
The Thickety is a sinister, magical debut with a marvelous and shocking heroine. J.A. White’s elegant writing and masterful plot kept me… — Lisa McMann Copy Share Image
Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren't relatable, and if you can't put yourself in the protagonist's shoes, not only will they not… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
“I'm not a heroine, I just play heroines. Also psychotics, vamps, orphans, hookers, housewives, and ”on one memorable occasionâ ”a singing rutabaga.… — Laura Resnick Copy Share Image
It's not my business to remedy deaths! It's my business to tell stories. Lyra and the other heroines didn't come with placards… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
All the "not readies," all the "I need time," are understandable, but only for a short while. The truth is that there… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
I've always thought that, as a romance writer, I had the best job in the world. I sit around all day making… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If my life were a corny horror movie, and the heroine was lost and alone, trapped in an underwater cave, what would… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I had to find meaning in it. So I go through this, I see all these homies die; I see all this… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In books by women and for women, it should come as no surprise that heroines are the heroes of the action, finding… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
“…I wanted to show that the mother was the heroine as soon as possible. I'm tired of love-sick girls and runaway wives.… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I can't expect to be playing the lead and romancing heroines, so I'll do what I'm best suited for and I'm doing… — Chunky Pandey Copy Share Image
I don't quite understand what Tolstoy's actual personal view of Anna is - whether he likes her or hates her, whether she's… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
I really like writing heroes who aren't necessarily 'Hollywood handsome.' Personally, I think men who are self-confident, intelligent, and funny are outrageously… — Suzanne Brockmann Copy Share Image
I think, with the gay liberation movement has had need for heroes and heroines, and it would be rather nice to have… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
In fiction, as in real life, love might inspire acts that are at best foolish and at worst life-threatening, but in the… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by; so they stayed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Lauren Ambrose's] character [in Can't Hardly Wait] feels real and unexaggerated and becomes sort of a heroine archetype. I think that was… — David Krumholtz Copy Share Image
At the heart of every successful romance novel lies the evolution of its characters. Through love, heroes and heroines grow not only… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
the beauty of America, neither cool jazz nor devoured Egyptian heroes, lies in lives in the darkness I inhabit in the midst… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
“To quote French author François Mauriac, ‘Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who your are' is true enough, but… — Sarah Wendell Copy Share Image
I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I'm sick of simpering white girls with their princess… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
“Why aren’t midwives the heroines of society that they should be? Why do they have such a low profile? They ought to… — Jennifer Worth Copy Share Image
“Women readers aren't turned on by nice heroes any more than male readers lust after heroines who are too virtuous.There should be… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
I don't need to live my art and almost die to understand my heroines. I want to love my sons, live quietly,… — Measha Brueggergosman Copy Share Image
“As women, we are the protagonists of our own personal novels. We are called upon to be the heroines of our own… — Erin Blakemore Copy Share Image
Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
You may debate whether the Disney heroines fit the feminist standard, but they don't live in a democracy. Remember, they're princesses. — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength. — Robert Shea Copy Share Image
“YA heroines can choose to have sex & they can choose not to without either decision becoming the focus of their story.” — Celine Kiernan Copy Share Image
Victoria Roberts spins an exciting Highland tale of intrigue, betrayal, and love with a braw Highland hero and strong English heroine any… — Hannah Howell Copy Share Image
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