It's not my business to remedy deaths! It's my business to tell stories. Lyra and the other heroines didn't come with placards… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
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
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
O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan 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 wanted to analyze how unnecessary it is to collapse a heroine into one specific mold, to give them all the same… — David Trumble 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'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
All the "not readies," all the "I need time," are understandable, but only for a short while. The truth is that there… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes 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
If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy. — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
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
People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to… — Guy Claxton Copy Share Image
He had even read Pride and Prejudice--although he had thought that many of the heroine's problems would have been solved if someone… — Lynn Viehl 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
A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
My heroines are always virgins. They never go to bed without a ring on their fingers; not until page 118 at least. — Barbara Cartland Copy Share Image
There is no king or sovereign state That can fix a hero's rate; Each to all is venerable. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
“…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
