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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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• 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 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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• 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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• How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Dream, Time

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.276, Penguin

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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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• September could see it. She did not know what is was she saw. That is the disadvantage of being a heroine, rather than a narrator. She knew only that a red light glowed and went dark, glowed and went dark.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Dark, Light, Narrators

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.210, Macmillan

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• You will suffer, be tempted, and make mistakes. You will learn for yourself what every heroine has learned: through overcoming challenges come growth and strength. It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life's story will develop.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Mistake, Adversity, Challenges

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• I never go to movies where the hero's tits are bigger than the heroine's.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Hero

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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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• Our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by; so they stayed away for years and had a lovely time.

  James M. Barrie

  Mother, Children, Years

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.86, 谷月社

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• I hate those endless descriptions of a heroine's physical attributes . . . it really bothers me how in books it seems like the only two choices are perfection or self-hatred. As if readers will only like a character who's ideal--or completely shattered.

  E. Lockhart

  Hate, Book, Character

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 1: The Boyfriend List”, p.19, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth is, life itself, is always startling, strange, unexpected. But when the truth is told about it everybody knows at once that it is life itself and not made up. But in ordinary fiction, movies, etc, everything is smoothed out to seem plausible--villains made bad, heroes splendid, heroines glamorous, and so on, so that no one believes a word

  Brenda Ueland

  Believe, Hero, Ordinary

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• He had even read Pride and Prejudice--although he had thought that many of the heroine's problems would have been solved if someone had simply strangled her mother.

  Lynn Viehl

  Mother, Pride, Prejudice

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• She remembered the heroines of novels she had read, and the lyrical legion of those adulterous women began to sing in her memory with sisterly voices that enchanted her. Now she saw herself as one of those amoureuses whom she had so envied: she was becoming, in reality, one of that gallery of fictional figures; the long dream of her youth was coming true.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Dream, Memories, Reality

  Gustave Flaubert (1993). “Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life”, Everyman's Library

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• O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, White, Mad

  'The Critic' (1779) act 3, sc. 1

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

  Ann-Marie MacDonald

  Judging, World, Failing

  Ann-Marie MacDonald (2011). “Fall On Your Knees”, p.296, Simon and Schuster

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• We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing in life, really. And I think we are all striving for it in different ways. I also believe very, very strongly that everybody is the hero/heroine of his/her own life. I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters

  Maeve Binchy

  Believe, Hero, Character

  FaceBook post by Maeve Binchy from Mar 24, 2012

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• 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.

  Jane Yolen

  Fall, Hero, Doors

  Jane Yolen (2011). “Snow in Summer”, p.55, Penguin

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