Heroine Quotes

116 Heroine quotes by 99 unique authors

I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life. — Mitch Hedberg
In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic heroine. — Aimee Mullins
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep'… — Rob Sheffield
To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself. — Simone Weil
Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries famously lasted 72 days, and was reported in the tabloids as being all about the big bucks paid by… — Naomi Wolf
...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal howl says it… — Patti Smith
Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day.. — Ray Bradbury
For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the… — Rebecca Solnit
Make them do as you want them to," she said. "I can’t," mourned Anne. "Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. — Nora Ephron
No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen… — Jane Austen
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to… — Jane Austen
I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him. — Julia Quinn
We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important… — Maeve Binchy
There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike the slight implications of quotidian… — Lionel Shriver
A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his… — Ayn Rand
Our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by; so they stayed away for years… — James M. Barrie
When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same… — Jane Austen
All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged -- after all, what's good enough for… — Mary Ann Shaffer
I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like — Jane Austen
If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard? — Jane Austen
Marry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale that’s based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has a miserable, dangerous,… — Laurell K. Hamilton
As it happened, I didn't grow up to be the kind of woman who is the heroine in a Western, and although the men I… — Joan Didion
If my life were a corny horror movie, and the heroine was lost and alone, trapped in an underwater cave, what would happen next? If… — James Patterson

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