Best Heroines Words
144 Heroines quotes by 124 unique authors
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I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like
— Jane Austen
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She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her…
— Oscar Wilde
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If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?
— Jane Austen
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Yes, there are plenty of heroes and heroines everywhere you look. They are not famous people. They are generally obscure and modest people doing useful…
— Edward Abbey
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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
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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
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Aren't hidden doors the most alluring? The old stories point that out surely. Even the greatest heroes and heroines fall under the spell of a…
— Jane Yolen
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There are so many unsung heroines and heroes at this broken moment in our collective story, so many courageous persons who, unbeknownst to themselves, are…
— David Abram
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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 Pérez-Reverte
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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
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She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books.
— Gustave Flaubert
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I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with a blotched and…
— Daphne du Maurier
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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
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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
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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
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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
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