Heroines Quotes · Page 3

It was never really my choice to be an action heroine.

— Izabella Scorupco

Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book.

— Mark Twain

None of the Bollywood heroines have butts like Salma Hayek and J Lo.

— Sherlyn Chopra

O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like

— Jane Austen

My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I'd like to know.

— Agnes de Mille

Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or…

— Ray Bradbury

I have a connection with Bengali heroines. I have worked with Tanushree Dutta and Bipasha Basu.

— Vivek Agnihotri

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

— Nina Simone

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

Our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by; so they stayed…

— Anonymous

I was never career-oriented, not in the way other heroines are. Of course, I took my work seriously. But I never solicited…

— Namrata Shirodkar

“…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

I can't expect to be playing the lead and romancing heroines, so I'll do what I'm best suited for and I'm doing…

— Chunky Pandey

In books by women and for women, it should come as no surprise that heroines are the heroes of the action, finding…

— Sarah MacLean

The Thickety is a sinister, magical debut with a marvelous and shocking heroine. J.A. White’s elegant writing and masterful plot kept me…

— Lisa McMann

Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren't relatable, and if you can't put yourself in the protagonist's shoes, not only will they not…

— Cassandra Clare

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

Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was…

— Mark Twain

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

If my life were a corny horror movie, and the heroine was lost and alone, trapped in an underwater cave, what would…

— James Patterson

You will suffer, be tempted, and make mistakes. You will learn for yourself what every heroine has learned: through overcoming challenges come…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She's selfish, she's childish, she's…

— Amber Benson

THREE DAYS TO DEAD is one of the best books I've read. Ever. Evy Stone is a heroine's heroine, and I rooted…

— Jackie Morse Kessler

The heroines in 'That's What She Said' are flawed, messy, damaged, hilarious and culpable and not really concerned about being acceptable to…

— Carrie Preston

“People in books were always so charming, and all their thoughts and actions so comprehensible. They all invariably had a clear, well-defined…

— Lyubov Dostoyevskaya

Nowadays heroines are doing everything from acting to item songs. They are jumping into the territory of item girls.

— Rakhi Sawant

The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet.

— Henry David Thoreau

There are no heroes and heroines in 'Naan.' All of us play different characters, and have equally important roles.

— Vijay Antony

A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.

— Anita Baker

Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.

— Ava DuVernay

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

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

There are always these moments in life when the limits of suffering are reached and we become heroes and heroines.

— Katherine Mansfield

Rae Carson's heroine is a perfect blend of the ordinary and the extraordinary. I loved her.

— Megan Whalen Turner

“Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them -- are ruinous!”

— William Dean Howells

[Sarah] Palin is solidifying her status as a bona fide American cultural heroine.

— Camille Paglia

A YA heroine does not have to pick up a weapon nor wear men's clothing to be equal to her male counterparts.

— Celine Kiernan

She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books.

— Gustave Flaubert