Books 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

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

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

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 heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one

— Jean Paul

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

“If you’d saved the girl, you’d be a hero. Next time.”

— Steven Ramirez

“A female character can: Like babies, Be devoted to her lover, Cry, Be gentle, Be scared, Be uncertain, Take advice, and still be a…

— Celine Kiernan

“The girl would grow up marked by tragedy and, when she was twenty, would use her own suffering to help alleviate that of others.…

— Paulo Coelho

To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a…

— George Eliot