Deserve Quote by Nelson Mandela

There are always these moments in life when the limits of suffering are reached and we become heroes and heroines.

— Katherine Mansfield

Regarding heroism, I grew up in a culture where you learn about heroes and heroines all the time. In a way, when you call…

— Yiyun Li

I have lots of heroes and heroines, mostly unsung and including my husband.

— Mary Beard

I think there need to be more female action heroines out there that are intelligent and not overly masculine and things like that so…

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them…

— Edward de Bono

In fiction, as in real life, love might inspire acts that are at best foolish and at worst life-threatening, but in the best romances,…

— Sarah MacLean

The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.

— Robert Shea

The antidote to hatred in the heart, the source of violence, is tolerance. Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas [enlightened heroes and heroines]…

— Dalai Lama

We all recall the cruel stepmother in fairy tales. That archetype is often a necessary element in a fairy tale so that the heroine/hero…

— David Richo

Often the true hero and heroines of my books are the houses, the places, the communities where people find a home.

— Jackie French

“Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them -- are ruinous!”

— William Dean Howells

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

— Nina Simone

Nature I believe in. True art aims to, represent men and women, not as my little self would have them, but as they appear.…

— Ouida

Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.

— Martha Gellhorn

There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who first ate…

— Gladys Taber