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
“ Who are your favorite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their… — Christopher Hitchens 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
I believe that our lives, just like fairy tales - the stories that have been written by us humans, through our own… — Lucinda Riley 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
Marry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale that’s based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
I always found the witches and wicked stepmothers far more interesting than the 'heroines' - at least they actually did something. — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
I think there need to be more female action heroines out there that are intelligent and not overly masculine and things like… — Mary Elizabeth Winstead Copy Share Image
“We get heroes with impossible abilities and heroines with strengths we can only dream of. And for a little while, we are… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Butterfield 8, with its call-girl heroine working her way down the alphabet of men from Amherst to Yale, appeared at a very… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The love story between the hero and the heroine has to be at the center of the book. I think that's pretty… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips 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
“Villains made no special guest appearances in our Once Upon A Time story games. They scared Laura and bored me, so instead… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
Make them do as you want them to," she said. "I can’t," mourned Anne. "Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will… — Lucy Maud Montgomery 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
Many of the heroines from outside Karnataka have worked in my films, but the attitude and adjusting nature of top South Indian… — Rockline Venkatesh Copy Share Image
If the hero is not a person, the emblem Of him, even if Xenophon, seems To stand taller than a person stands,… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The one person whom I would like to be is Meryl Streep. Even at her age, she sits alongside the younger heroines… — Rani Mukerji Copy Share Image
To me Vivien Leigh was a tragic heroine of classic proportions: chosen, blessed and abandoned by the gods. Obstinately she tried to… — Elaine Dundy 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
The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of the series of books by Cassandra Clare, The Mortal Instruments. I'm a fan myself, so to be… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
Anne Barton is a delightful new voice in historical romance! Once She Was Tempted is a charming read, with characters who are… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“Jane Austen had created six heroines, each quite different, and that gave Charlotte courage. There wasn't just one kind of woman to… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Some people say heroines just have to look good and provide the glamour. Some say, from dance-n-song routines, heroines have come a… — Urmila Matondkar 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
When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending… — Eleanor Roosevelt 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
I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Why are heroines in romantic novels—despite their cleanliness and enviable lifestyles—so unlikeable? It’s like they’ve been hit with a vanilla ninny stick,… — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I wanted to avoid what some modern tellers have done, quite legitimately, to make fairy tales more like novels and short stories,… — Philip Pullman 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
She remembered the heroines of novels she had read, and the lyrical legion of those adulterous women began to sing in her… — Anonymous 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
I'm an optimist and my heroines seem to be that way, too. It's too much work to be cynical and distrusting. That… — Debbie Macomber 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
I really want to do roles that have some substance, and I hope writers give us that importance. I can't alone stand… — Raashi Khanna Copy Share Image
