It’s about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it. — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
Boring heroines are, in my opinion, the most common romance mistake. We loathe hanging out with women who define themselves purely through… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Christy Barritt's novel, Hazardous Duty, is a delightful read from beginning to end. The story's fresh, engaging heroine with an unusual occupation… — Colleen Coble 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
You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do not belong to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I turned the pages so fast. And I suppose I was, in my mindless way, looking for a something, version of myself,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“For a moment I have the alarming thought that maybe I want heroines so I can be their best friend and loyal… — Samantha Ellis Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that is easy to have happened in a superhero story is that the female character, whether… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
“As far as one knows of heroines from history. I'm capable of a great jerk, an effort, and then a relaxation—but steady… — Elizabeth Gaskell 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
I've found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are so many unsung heroines and heroes at this broken moment in our collective story, so many courageous persons who, unbeknownst… — David Abram 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
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
They're always such alive females. And also, all those love stories - no man in Austen has ever fallen in love with… — Anna Maxwell Martin Copy Share Image
I think I will always feel a special relationship with The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, because for me it was something very, very… — Catherine Deneuve 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
“She read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
That was how the heroine of a book would play it and Diana was still writing her own story the best heroines… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
I've written about domestic violence in my book, Lola Rose and it's a great relief to know that terrified children like Jayni,… — Jacqueline Wilson 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
Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what… — Judith Krantz Copy Share Image
The heroines for our established heroes are getting younger and younger. So the heroines, who started their careers with these established heroes,… — Waheeda Rehman 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
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
Daffy, of course, wants to go on the journey with him but the studio decides they want Daffy back, so Bugs and… — Joe Dante 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
“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
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
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
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 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 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 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
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
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 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 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
