Female character Quote by Charlotte Brontë

“I was secretly entranced with the idea of a lady novelist. I should dearly love to be one. Or maybe a goblin-fighting-pirate-queen. It was…

— Alyxandra Harvey

“Should women read, Miss Caine? There’s a question for you. Does it excite them too much?”

— John Boyne

“The chances are that, being a woman, young, And pure, with such a pair of large, calm eyes, You write as well...and ill...upon the…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“First I loved women, then animals, and now I love stones. They're just as amusing as women and animals and they're much less trecherous.”

— Victor Hugo

“Not for the first time she reflected that there were many drawbacks to being a swordswoman, not least of which was that men didn’t…

— Terry Pratchett

“For a moment I have the alarming thought that maybe I want heroines so I can be their best friend and loyal sidekick without…

— Samantha Ellis

“What if, for once in history, a woman's story could be untethered from what we need it to be in order to feel better…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“There is a potential heroine in every woman.”

— Jean Shinoda Bolen

“...all readings are provisional, and that maybe we read heroines for what we need from them at the time.”

— Samantha Ellis

“Ask a guy who his favourite authors are. If he doesn't list a single female among them, something up.”

— Stephanie Davies

“As women, we are the protagonists of our own personal novels. We are called upon to be the heroines of our own lives, not…

— Erin Blakemore

“I say that there is no role for women - there is, instead, a role for each woman, and she must make it for…

— Brandon Sanderson