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
the beauty of America, neither cool jazz nor devoured Egyptian heroes, lies in lives in the darkness I inhabit in the midst… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I'm sick of simpering white girls with their princess… — Camille Paglia 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
“Women readers aren't turned on by nice heroes any more than male readers lust after heroines who are too virtuous.There should be… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
“As women, we are the protagonists of our own personal novels. We are called upon to be the heroines of our own… — Erin Blakemore 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
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
When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I think as women we've always been very used to growing up reading and identifying with male protagonists, especially in fantasy. There's… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is "as good as she is beautiful". I… — Alex Flinn 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
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
In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
“Why aren’t midwives the heroines of society that they should be? Why do they have such a low profile? They ought to… — Jennifer Worth 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
Victoria Roberts spins an exciting Highland tale of intrigue, betrayal, and love with a braw Highland hero and strong English heroine any… — Hannah Howell 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
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
Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
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
The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am always naturally drawn to heroines that have human flaws because I enjoy people that have lived their life with courage… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
I think I should date a normal girl. I am tired of dating heroines. While I believe in marriage as an institution,… — Shahid Kapoor 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
When actors do anti-hero roles, they are critically acclaimed. When heroines do negative roles, they are sidelined from the industry. — Sangeetha Krish 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
September could see it. She did not know what is was she saw. That is the disadvantage of being a heroine, rather… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
We aren't always comfortable witnessing real frailty or vulnerability in our heroines, but I like characters who struggle, and doubt, and who… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
She's the ulimate heroine, strong-willed and independent, intelligent, loyal, but at the same time, she's not flawless, she's not above mistakes, or… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
“The day came when she discovered sex, sensuality, and literature; she said, 'I submit! Let my life be henceforth ruled by poetry.… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I loved cinema from a very young age. I was also obsessed with Hitchcock and actresses like Kim Novak in Vertigo. They… — Erdem Moral?oglu Copy Share Image
“I've done nothing for the past five years but try to be the hero who protects her. The problem? Heroines don't need… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with Greek mythology. My favorite goddess is Artemis. She's strong and reminds me of Katniss, the heroine of The Hunger… — Isabelle Fuhrman Copy Share Image
What is a Gallagher Girl? She's a genius, a scientist, a heroine, a spy... a Gallagher Girl is whatever she wants to… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
What makes a heroine? I think I can answer that. A heroine is a woman who risks going too far in order… — Diane Keaton Copy Share Image
It's so reassuring to have a woman heroine who triumphs with more than just what she has on the outside... who has… — America Ferrera Copy Share Image
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