Heroine Quotes

116 Heroine quotes by 99 unique authors

I won't do this movie because I don't believe the love story," she told Selznick. "The heroine is an intellectual woman, and an intellectual woman… — Ingrid Bergman
And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed with thorns and… — Jane Austen
She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong for love and… — Anna Godbersen
That was how the heroine of a book would play it and Diana was still writing her own story the best heroines she'd always believed… — Anna Godbersen
Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths... The first kind, they show… — Jennifer Donnelly
This was my one brush with love. Was it love? It felt awful enough. I spent another two years crawling around in the skin of… — Paula McLain
September could see it. She did not know what is was she saw. That is the disadvantage of being a heroine, rather than a narrator.… — Catherynne M. Valente
She's the ulimate heroine, strong-willed and independent, intelligent, loyal, but at the same time, she's not flawless, she's not above mistakes, or falling in love. — Tammara Webber
Of all the universal lies she accepted unquestioningly, the happy ending was the most absurd. The hero and heroine lived happily ever after, and the… — Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte
I turned the pages so fast. And I suppose I was, in my mindless way, looking for a something, version of myself, a heroine I… — Ian Mcewan
She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books. — Gustave Flaubert
Whoever heard of a midwife as a literary heroine? Yet midwifery is the very stuff of drama. Every child is conceived either in love or… — Jennifer Worth
On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine she ever read… — Elizabeth Gaskell
To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives… — Eleanor Roosevelt
All the "not readies," all the "I need time," are understandable, but only for a short while. The truth is that there is never a… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
What is a Gallagher Girl? She's a genius, a scientist, a heroine, a spy... a Gallagher Girl is whatever she wants to be. — Ally Carter
How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What is important to me as an actor is that ,even if I have to spread my arms, take my shirt off on a mountain… — Vir Das
My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I do gravitate toward 19th century writers, and I never mind being compared with some of the most memorable writers from that era. I mean,… — Julia Glass
We all know that small cars are good for us. But so is cod liver oil. And jogging. I want to drive around in a… — Jeremy Clarkson
I want to play a villain. I want to play a romantic heroine. — Allison Williams
There is perhaps no more rewarding romance heroine than she who is not expected to find love. The archetype comes in many disguises - the… — Sarah MacLean
I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine. — Gavin Rossdale
Young men and young women meet each other with much less difficulty than was formerly the case, and every housemaid expects at least once a… — Bertrand Russell

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