Heroines Quotes

144 Heroines quotes by 124 unique authors

...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
I never go to movies where the hero's tits are bigger than the heroine's. — Groucho Marx
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
Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world in which good… — Terri Windling
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
What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is… — Edward Abbey
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
Among the real heroines in the world who will come into the Church are women who are more concerned with being righteous than with being… — Spencer W. Kimball
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
The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge. — Ann-Marie MacDonald
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
I hate those endless descriptions of a heroine's physical attributes . . . it really bothers me how in books it seems like the only… — E. Lockhart
Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth is, life itself,… — Brenda Ueland
He had even read Pride and Prejudice--although he had thought that many of the heroine's problems would have been solved if someone had simply strangled… — Lynn Viehl
She remembered the heroines of novels she had read, and the lyrical legion of those adulterous women began to sing in her memory with sisterly… — Gustave Flaubert
You are suffering from an ailment that affects ladies of romantic imaginations. Symptoms include fainting, weariness, loss of appetite, low spirits. While on one level… — Diane Setterfield
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

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