No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Yeah, I treat all my heroines like children now. I pick them up, I cuddle them, I call them baby... — Shahrukh Khan Copy Share Image
A lot of my work has been about the unexpected—that kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
I have lots of heroes and heroines, mostly unsung and including my husband. — Mary Beard 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
In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines… — Donna de Varona Copy Share Image
We don't have Latina heroines in theaters; I haven't seen Marvel doing it. — Isabela Moner 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
Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripatetic crusaders like Susan B.… — Gail Collins 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
My story starts at sea, a perilous voyage to an unknown land. A shipwreck. The wild waters roar and heave. The brave… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I think I'm up for not trying to play a literary heroine. I think I'd rather just do someone that has just… — Lily James Copy Share Image
A glad zest and hopefulness might be inspired even in the most jaded and ennui-cursed, were there in our homes such simple,… — T.C. Boyle 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
We now have a national security consideration, public health issues, we have an epidemic of heroine overdoses in all places in this… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Nature I believe in. True art aims to, represent men and women, not as my little self would have them, but as… — Ouida Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The hero sees that the event is ancillary: it must follow him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I've got really prolific since I moved to Paris where I am living permanently, for the rest of my life, until I… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
I hate those endless descriptions of a heroine's physical attributes . . . it really bothers me how in books it seems… — E. Lockhart 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
You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
This was my one brush with love. Was it love? It felt awful enough. I spent another two years crawling around in… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him. — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
