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I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like — Jane Austen
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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