I am always naturally drawn to heroines that have human flaws because I enjoy people that have lived their life with courage… — Romola Garai 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
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
Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"? — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge. — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
Wonderful women! Have you ever thought how much we all, and women especially, owe to Shakespeare for his vindication of women in… — Ellen Terry 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
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'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
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
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
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
“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
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
Victoria Roberts spins an exciting Highland tale of intrigue, betrayal, and love with a braw Highland hero and strong English heroine any… — Hannah Howell Copy Share Image
Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole… — Bertrand Russell 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
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
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
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
My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a… — Joanne Harris 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
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 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
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
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
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
“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
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
A lot of my work has been about the unexpected—that kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
Nature I believe in. True art aims to, represent men and women, not as my little self would have them, but as… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries famously lasted 72 days, and was reported in the tabloids as being all about the big… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is "as good as she is beautiful". I… — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I don't know if I'm a heroine; I'm just somebody that can cheer the troops by singing to folks, and have receptions… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I think as women we've always been very used to growing up reading and identifying with male protagonists, especially in fantasy. There's… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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