Heroines Quotes

144 Heroines quotes by 124 unique authors

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
Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them. — Iain Banks
My heroines, more often than not, are the ones who are troubled and resistant. — Sylvia Day
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
We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned… — Elizabeth Janeway
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
My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a past that has… — Joanne Harris
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
Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women. — Nora Roberts
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
There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were. — Nina Simone
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

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