Belts Quote by Mark Twain

Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be…

— Mark Twain

Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

— Mark Twain

In books by women and for women, it should come as no surprise that heroines are the heroes of the action, finding themselves, their…

— Sarah MacLean

No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one

— Jean Paul

“Not every girl can be Isabelle Lightwood or Katniss Everdeen. I think the true measure of a hero is what a person does with…

— Sarah Cross

A hero could be anyone who does something heroic, irrespective of the gender.

— Vicky Kaushal

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen…

— Jane Austen

A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over…

— Stendhal

No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary, existential courage of…

— Andrea Dworkin

In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the…

— Ken Follett

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic…

— Virginia Woolf

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance; very various;…

— Virginia Woolf