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
[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
The statement I wanted to make was that it makes no sense to put these real-life women into one limited template, so… — David Trumble Copy Share Image
Wonderful women! Have you ever thought how much we all, and women especially, owe to Shakespeare for his vindication of women in… — Ellen Terry Copy Share Image
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and… — Jane Austen 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
In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In How to Be an American Housewife Margaret Dilloway creates an irresistible heroine. Shoko is stubborn, contrary, proud, a wonderful housewife and… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
When you talk about heroines and heroes, at the top of the list has got to be the single moms of America. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
For Fleur de Chine, I imagined the romantic and mysterious women from Asia's cinematic past-from the '30s femme fatale in a cheongsam… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place? — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Love, to the inferior man, remains almost wholly a physical matter. The heroine he most admires is the one who offers the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Readers will stand up and cheer for Karen Fox's Prince of Charming! Finally, a heroine who's a real woman. Finally, a hero… — Maggie Shayne Copy Share Image
Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
The history of struggle is rich with stories of heroes and heroines - some of them leaders, some of them followers, all… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A Touch of Crimson explodes with passion and heat. A hot, sexy angel to die for and a gutsy heroine make for… — Cheyenne McCray Copy Share Image
She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There are always these moments in life when the limits of suffering are reached and we become heroes and heroines. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story.… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
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