Heroines Quotes

The statement I wanted to make was that it makes no sense to put these real-life women into one limited template, so why then are we doing it to our fictitious heroines?

There is a potential heroine in every woman.

Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel.

I can still love my heroine like i did when i was 26. I can still do the same action scenes.

There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.

Heroes are born to be troublemakers.

It was never really my choice to be an action heroine.

We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.

When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.

I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like

My heroines, more often than not, are the ones who are troubled and resistant.

If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I'd like to know.

She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books.

The hero sees that the event is ancillary: it must follow him.

Make them do as you want them to," she said. "I can’t," mourned Anne. "Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say things I never meant her to. Then that spoils everything that went before and I have to write it all over again.

I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.

I wanted to be my own heroine.

My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them.

A villain always preferred luring the heroine to his lair.

[Sarah] Palin is solidifying her status as a bona fide American cultural heroine.

No woman is a heroine to her dentist.

Rae Carson's heroine is a perfect blend of the ordinary and the extraordinary. I loved her.