Heroines Quotes

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

  Nina Simone

  Hero, Knowing, People

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• I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Sex, Humor

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• It is said that no star is a heroine to her makeup artist.

  Richard Corliss

  Stars, Artist, Makeup

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• Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.

  Ava DuVernay

  Needs, Stories, Figures

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

  Jane Austen

  Love, Sister, Wedding

  Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.8, Wild Jot Press

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• Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.

  Jane Austen

  Agitation, Critical Moments, May

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.56

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• It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.We all save it every day, and we all destroy it -- in our own small ways -- by every choice we make and every tiniest action resulting from that choice.The next time you feel useless and impotent, remember what you are in fact doing in this very moment. And then observe your tiny, seemingly meaningless acts and choices coalesce and cascade together into a powerful positive whole.The world -- if it could -- will thank you for it.And if it does not... well, a true heroine or hero does not require it.

  Vera Nazarian

  Powerful, Hero, Choices

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  Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

  Nora Ephron

  Life, Inspiring, Encouraging

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Jun 26, 2012

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• We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Girl, Girlfriend, Writing

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

  Sylvia Day

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• To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

  Simone Weil

  Women, Hero, Order

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

  Cate Blanchett

  Narrative, My Own

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

  Nora Roberts

  Real, Hero, Men

  "Nora Roberts on her MacGregor Series". All About Romance Interview, allaboutromance.com.

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

  Izabella Scorupco

  Choices, Action

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• 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.

  Judith Krantz

  Book, Imagination, Heaven

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• Daffy, of course, wants to go on the journey with him but the studio decides they want Daffy back, so Bugs and a young studio executive heroine have to go out and try to bring him back.

  Joe Dante

  Journey, Trying, Goes On

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• 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.

  Camille Paglia

  Girl, Princess, White

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.12, Vintage

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• Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day.

  Ray Bradbury

  Sports, Morning, Hero

  "Medicine For Melancholy" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2008.

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

  Jane Austen

  Protection, Novel, Regard

  Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.20, Wild Jot Press

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• She's the ulimate heroine, strong-willed and independent, intelligent, loyal, but at the same time, she's not flawless, she's not above mistakes, or falling in love.

  Tammara Webber

  Falling In Love, Strong, Mistake

  Tammara Webber (2014). “Between the Lines: The Complete Series”, p.99, Tammara Webber

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• When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. We could be heroines, swordswomen. Even if she had to rage across all China, a swordswoman got even with anybody who hurt her family. Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Girl, Hurt, Feet

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.24, Vintage

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• No woman is a heroine to her dentist.

  Val McDermid

  Dentist

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• 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.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Hero, Shoes

  Interview with Cheryl Brody, www.seventeen.com. March 5, 2008.

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• When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors. It should be a rule that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Morning, Lovely, Ordinary

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

  Katherine Mansfield

  Hero, Suffering, Limits

  Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Scott (1997). “The Katherine Mansfield notebooks”

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