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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• What is a Gallagher Girl? She's a genius, a scientist, a heroine, a spy... a Gallagher Girl is whatever she wants to be.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Spy, Genius

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

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Perfect, Ordinary, Extraordinary

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• It's not my business to remedy deaths! It's my business to tell stories. Lyra and the other heroines didn't come with placards saying, "Make this a feminist story!" I'm glad people enjoy seeing a female protagonist in a big adventure story, but I didn't do it for political reasons.

  Philip Pullman

  Adventure, People, Feminist

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Christy Barritt's novel, Hazardous Duty, is a delightful read from beginning to end. The story's fresh, engaging heroine with an unusual occupation hooked me, and I couldn't put it down. I highly recommend Hazardous Duty.

  Colleen Coble

  Stories, Occupation, Unusual

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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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• There is this giant void in the culture about women in that age group as heroines, as romantic beings, as sexual beings and as creative beings, and there's not that void for men. Women don't stop being all those things as their lives continue into those decades.

  Naomi Wolf

  Men, Creative, Age

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• I don't think you're happier if you're thin or beautiful or rich or married. You have to make your own happiness. My heroines do not become beautiful elegant swans, they become confident ducks and get on with life.

  Maeve Binchy

  Beautiful, Thinking, Swans

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• While the hero journeys for external fame, fortune, and power, the heroine tries to regain her lost creative spirit… Once she hears the cries of this lost part of herself needing rescue, her journey truly begins.

  Valerie Estelle Frankel

  Hero, Journey, Creative

  Valerie Estelle Frankel (2010). “From Girl to Goddess: The Heroine's Journey through Myth and Legend”, p.20, McFarland

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• A YA heroine does not have to pick up a weapon nor wear men's clothing to be equal to her male counterparts.

  Celine Kiernan

  Men, Males, Doe

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• In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is 'as good as she is beautiful.' I wondered if people just wanted that to be true, wanted the beautiful to be good. I wondered if they wanted the ugly to be bad because then they wouldn't have to feel bad for them.

  Alex Flinn

  Beautiful, People, Stories

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

  Bernie Sanders

  Mom, Hero, America

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• 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.

  Edward de Bono

  Art, Hero, People

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• 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.

  Nelson Mandela

  Struggle, Hero, Leader

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.184, Pan Macmillan

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• 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.

  Shahid Kapoor

  Girl, Believe, Tired

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• Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over again ten years later it is likely she would rather have a life-belt and he would rather have her have it. Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

  Mark Twain

  Girl, Book, Hero

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910”

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• Victoria Roberts spins an exciting Highland tale of intrigue, betrayal, and love with a braw Highland hero and strong English heroine any reader will love.

  Hannah Howell

  Strong, Betrayal, Hero

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• The Dream Lover is a historical novel at once expansively researched yet intimately imagined. George Sand may be the ultimate Berg heroine. 'A life not lived in truth,' Berg writes, 'is a life forfeited.' In this latest work, Elizabeth Berg has poured her own great gifts and her own great heart into the story of a woman determined to refuse any such forfeiture, no matter the cost.

  Leah Hager Cohen

  Dream, Writing, Heart

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• I loved cinema from a very young age. I was also obsessed with Hitchcock and actresses like Kim Novak in Vertigo. They all played heroines and were strong, powerful women, yet they were very feminine.

  Erdem Moral?oglu

  Strong, Powerful, Age

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who first ate a lobster. This staggers the imagination. I salute him every time I take my nutcracker in hand and move the melted-butter pipkin closer.

  Gladys Taber

  Moving, Hero, Men

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• I wanted to be my own heroine.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Wanted, My Own

  Jesmyn Ward (2013). “Men We Reaped: A Memoir”, p.86, A&C Black

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