Heroine Quotes

116 Heroine quotes by 99 unique authors

THREE DAYS TO DEAD is one of the best books I've read. Ever. Evy Stone is a heroine's heroine, and I rooted for her from… — Jackie Morse Kessler
A lot of my work has been about the unexpected—that kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at… — Kara Walker
A Touch of Crimson explodes with passion and heat. A hot, sexy angel to die for and a gutsy heroine make for one exciting read! — Cheyenne McCray
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
While the hero journeys for external fame, fortune, and power, the heroine tries to regain her lost creative spirit… Once she hears the cries of this… — Valerie Estelle Frankel
Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel. — Bertrand Russell
What makes a heroine? I think I can answer that. A heroine is a woman who risks going too far in order to find out… — Diane Keaton
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
A villain always preferred luring the heroine to his lair. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them. — Sophie Kinsella
I wanted to analyze how unnecessary it is to collapse a heroine into one specific mold, to give them all the same sparkly fashion, the… — David Trumble
When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine. — H.G. Wells
[Sarah] Palin is solidifying her status as a bona fide American cultural heroine. — Camille Paglia
I've found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person. So from the… — Beth Richardson Gutcheon
A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine. — Mignon McLaughlin
When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the… — Jane Austen
I'd always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass. But,… — Olivia Thirlby
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 immature and because… — Amber Benson
People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to the fact that… — Guy Claxton
We dream forever unless we awaken. We move from one dream to another, some beautiful, some we're the hero or the heroine, some horrible, some… — Frederick Lenz
Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book. — Mark Twain
It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.We all save it every day, and we all destroy it… — Vera Nazarian
For Fleur de Chine, I imagined the romantic and mysterious women from Asia's cinematic past-from the '30s femme fatale in a cheongsam and dark lipstick,… — Tom Ford
The love story between the hero and the heroine has to be at the center of the book. I think that's pretty true in my… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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