“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
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
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Jerusalem Maiden is a page-turning and thought-provoking novel. Extraordinary sensory detail vividly conjures another time and place; heroine Esther Kaminsky’s poignant struggle… — Binnie Kirshenbaum Copy Share Image
There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The Dream Lover is a historical novel at once expansively researched yet intimately imagined. George Sand may be the ultimate Berg heroine.… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
“Romance novels feature nuanced portrayals of female characters having adventures, making choices, and accepting themselves just as they are. When we say… — Maya Rodale Copy Share Image
Novels do not force their fair readers to sin, they only instruct them how to sin; the consequences of which are fully… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann 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
“There are heroes and, emphatically, heroines enough in this history. Yielding to the temptation to focus on their courage, however, may miss… — Charles Payne Copy Share Image
Rosa Luxemburg was - still is for me - a great personal and intellectual heroine. Her analysis of Leninism and capitalism and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There is this giant void in the culture about women in that age group as heroines, as romantic beings, as sexual beings… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Red Sonja, she was a hellraiser before Buffy, Xena, and Ripley even existed. When so many heroines in comics were all hung… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be… — Maeve Binchy 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
All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged -- after all, what's… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
“The women who fought those fights were not the ones who got the rewards. People like me, who came right behind them,… — Lynn Povich Copy Share Image
“The best heroines, she'd always believed, took their fate into their own hands.” — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I'd like to know. — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
My heroines, more often than not, are the ones who are troubled and resistant. — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“YA heroines can choose to have sex & they can choose not to without either decision becoming the focus of their story.” — Celine Kiernan Copy Share Image
The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength. — Robert Shea Copy Share Image
You may debate whether the Disney heroines fit the feminist standard, but they don't live in a democracy. Remember, they're princesses. — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
“I think we often hold heroines to an absurd standard. Be brave! Be wise! Always know what's in your heart and speak… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
I had to find meaning in it. So I go through this, I see all these homies die; I see all this… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
In fiction, as in real life, love might inspire acts that are at best foolish and at worst life-threatening, but in the… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
At the heart of every successful romance novel lies the evolution of its characters. Through love, heroes and heroines grow not only… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
“To quote French author François Mauriac, ‘Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who your are' is true enough, but… — Sarah Wendell Copy Share Image
There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who… — Gladys Taber Copy Share Image
Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but high suspense writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama. — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
