Heroines Quotes

Heroines Quote of the day

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

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?

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

There is a potential heroine in every woman.

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

I think I should date a normal girl. I am tired of dating heroines. While I believe in marriage as an institution, I am also petrified of it.

Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.

My heroines are always virgins. They never go to bed without a ring on their fingers; not until page 118 at least.

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

We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.

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.

Wonderful women! Have you ever thought how much we all, and women especially, owe to Shakespeare for his vindication of women in these fearless, high-spirited, resolute and intelligent heroines?

Heroes are born to be troublemakers.

Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.

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.

The history of struggle is rich with stories of heroes and heroines - some of them leaders, some of them followers, all of them deserve to be remembered.

Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.

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

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

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

Yeah, I treat all my heroines like children now. I pick them up, I cuddle them, I call them baby.

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

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

Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.

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

I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I'm sick of simpering white girls with their princess fantasies.

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

Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren't relatable, and if you can't put yourself in the protagonist's shoes, not only will they not inspire you, but the book will be pretty boring.

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

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

Regarding heroism, I grew up in a culture where you learn about heroes and heroines all the time. In a way, when you call someone a hero or heroine, it's the same as calling them a villain.

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

What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

Aren't hidden doors the most alluring? The old stories point that out surely. Even the greatest heroes and heroines fall under the spell of a locked door.

I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with a blotched and swollen face, and red rims to my eyes.

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

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

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

When you talk about heroines and heroes, at the top of the list has got to be the single moms of America.

That was how the heroine of a book would play it and Diana was still writing her own story the best heroines she'd always believed took their fate into their own hands.

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.

The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.

No woman is a heroine to her dentist.

I wanted to be my own heroine.