I'd always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and… — Olivia Thirlby Copy Share Image
My stories are known for featuring fun, fearless Cosmopolitan-type heroines as well as delicious, dangerous heroes synonymous with Harlequin. Afterburn and Aftershock… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
In pulp fiction it is a rigid convention that the hero's shoulders and the heroine's balcon constantly threaten to burst their bonds,… — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
...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 Copy Share Image
What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in… — Molly Haskell Copy Share Image
Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do. — Anita Baker Copy Share Image
I don't know if I'm a heroine; I'm just somebody that can cheer the troops by singing to folks, and have receptions… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Aren't hidden doors the most alluring? The old stories point that out surely. Even the greatest heroes and heroines fall under the… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Whoever heard of a midwife as a literary heroine? Yet midwifery is the very stuff of drama. Every child is conceived either… — Jennifer Worth Copy Share Image
Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries famously lasted 72 days, and was reported in the tabloids as being all about the big… — Naomi Wolf 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
Alexander the Great changed a few boundaries and killed a few men. Both he and Napoleon were forced into fame by circumstances… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I'd like to know. — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
“The best heroines, she'd always believed, took their fate into their own hands.” — Anna Godbersen 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
She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Yes, there are plenty of heroes and heroines everywhere you look. They are not famous people. They are generally obscure and modest… — Edward Abbey 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
I already optioned a book called The Personal History of Rachel DuPree. I also like The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill.… — Viola Davis 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
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