Quote by Henry James

“She laughed at herself when she saw that she had expected to be at once a heretic and a returned hero; she was very…

— Sinclair Lewis

“And as for herself, if she could manage to welcome sorrow as readily as joy, it would shape her as deftly as joy could…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess.”

— Helen Oyeyemi

“whenever she felt besieged by doubts, she would think of herself as standing valiantly alone, as almost heroic, so as to squash her uncertainty.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“You could see that her tremendous inside life, its solitary fears and fires, was out of accord with her humble view of herself; to…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“She recognized it as one of her “good” days; a day when nothing was too difficult, nothing could vex or depress her, when she…

— Elizabeth Fair

“She was a soldier, a warrior in her way as much as I. This could have happened two hundred times these past twenty years.…

— Robert Jordan

“She was fierce in the presence of death, heroic even, as she was at no other time. Its threat gave her direction, clarity, audacity.”

— Toni Morrison

“Sometimes she wishes she could return to the naive happiness of their life. But mostly, she aches to go forward, to a place her…

— Shilpi Somaya Gowda

“She was a warrior by day... playing her part. But she slept at night with wishes in her heart.”

— Alfa H

“There was something much greater she needed to feed her soul, and perhaps one day soon she would go...”

— Danielle Steel

“It was only in the first few years that she felt herself screaming silently, at times, for a glimpse of human ability, a single…

— Ayn Rand