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

  Simone Weil

  Women, Hero, Order

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

  Izabella Scorupco

  Choices, Action

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

  Sylvia Day

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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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• 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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• What makes a heroine? I think I can answer that. A heroine is a woman who risks going too far in order to find out how far one can go for a cause greater than herself.

  Diane Keaton

  Thinking, Order, Risk

  "11 Ridiculously Inspiring Life Lessons From The L’Oréal 2014 Women Of Worth" by Amanda Duberman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2014.

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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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• I think there need to be more female action heroines out there that are intelligent and not overly masculine and things like that so Id love to find - and real too. Not necessarily the superhero perfect archetype of what an action hero is represented as a lot of times. I would love to find that kind of action heroine role to play.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Real, Hero, Intelligent

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

  Cate Blanchett

  Narrative, My Own

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

  Iain Banks

  Falling In Love, Character, Males

  Interview with Ken Livingstone, www.newstatesman.com.

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

  Bertrand Russell

  Excitement, Week, Novel

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.33, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.

  Rick Riordan

  Book, Writing, Character

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• Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book.

  Mark Twain

  Girl, Book, Charming

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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