There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“Romance novels feature nuanced portrayals of female characters having adventures, making choices, and accepting themselves just as they are. When we say… — Maya Rodale Copy Share Image
I really want to do roles that have some substance, and I hope writers give us that importance. I can't alone stand… — Raashi Khanna Copy Share Image
And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Jerusalem Maiden is a page-turning and thought-provoking novel. Extraordinary sensory detail vividly conjures another time and place; heroine Esther Kaminsky’s poignant struggle… — Binnie Kirshenbaum Copy Share Image
“There are heroes and, emphatically, heroines enough in this history. Yielding to the temptation to focus on their courage, however, may miss… — Charles Payne Copy Share Image
Rosa Luxemburg was - still is for me - a great personal and intellectual heroine. Her analysis of Leninism and capitalism and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There is this giant void in the culture about women in that age group as heroines, as romantic beings, as sexual beings… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Red Sonja, she was a hellraiser before Buffy, Xena, and Ripley even existed. When so many heroines in comics were all hung… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Novels do not force their fair readers to sin, they only instruct them how to sin; the consequences of which are fully… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged -- after all, what's… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
“The women who fought those fights were not the ones who got the rewards. People like me, who came right behind them,… — Lynn Povich Copy Share Image
We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
Victor Hugo makes one of his heroines--an actress--say, "My art endows me with a searching eye, a knowledge of the soul and… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
