"I wanted to be my own heroine." — Jesmyn Ward
"I wanted to be my own heroine."
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Jesmyn Ward
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16 Quotes by Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward has 16 quotes on this site.
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Grief doesn't fade. Grief scabs over like my scars and pulls into new, painful configurations as it knits. It hurts…
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Life is a hurricane, and we board up to save what we can and bow low to the earth to…
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By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic…
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There is laughter, shrill calls. Everyone is flirting, saying in nudges and jokes and blushing what they would do in…
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She was the murderous mother who cut us to the bone but left us alive, left us naked and bewildered…
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I read the last Harry Potter, and I cried for at least the last 70 pages. Awful! I was curled…
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I feel like the kind of people I write about are the kind of people I grew up with, the…
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That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.
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While I've said that there are plenty of things I dislike about the South, I can be clear that there…
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I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose…
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I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage…
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My mom worked as a housekeeper, and I saw her relationship with her employers - how on the one hand…
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More Heroine Quotes
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one of 116 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.
— Cate Blanchett
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You will suffer, be tempted, and make mistakes. You will learn for yourself what every heroine has learned: through overcoming…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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My story starts at sea, a perilous voyage to an unknown land. A shipwreck. The wild waters roar and heave.…
— William Shakespeare
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In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet,…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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It is said that no star is a heroine to her makeup artist.
— Richard Corliss
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Anne Barton is a delightful new voice in historical romance! Once She Was Tempted is a charming read, with characters…
— Tessa Dare
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I’m a huge fan of the books myself, so to know that I got to play Clary – who’s a…
— Lily Collins
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I'm obsessed with Greek mythology. My favorite goddess is Artemis. She's strong and reminds me of Katniss, the heroine of…
— Isabelle Fuhrman
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero…
— Felicity Jones
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It was never really my choice to be an action heroine.
— Izabella Scorupco
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Christy Barritt's novel, Hazardous Duty, is a delightful read from beginning to end. The story's fresh, engaging heroine with an…
— Colleen Coble
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