You are suffering from an ailment that affects ladies of romantic imaginations. Symptoms include fainting, weariness, loss of appetite, low spirits. While… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
A villain always preferred luring the heroine to his lair. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips 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
The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can… — Edward de Bono 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
They want younger girls, not old ones like me, as heroines. This is the tragedy of Bollywood. It is male dominated. — Himani Shivpuri 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
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
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
Among the real heroines in the world who will come into the Church are women who are more concerned with being righteous… — Spencer W. Kimball 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
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
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
“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
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
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
[Sarah] Palin is solidifying her status as a bona fide American cultural heroine. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips 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
I am a feminist, and I didn't think women would accept a throwback heroine. — Linda Woolverton Copy Share Image
Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the… — H. L. Mencken 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
I can still love my heroine like i did when i was 26. I can still do the same action scenes. — Shahrukh Khan 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