Heroines Quotes
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Heroines Quotes & Sayings
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Great battles can make great heroes and heroines.
— Ezra Taft Benson
As women, we are the protagonists of our own personal novels. We are called upon to be the heroines of our own lives, not supporting characters.
— Erin Blakemore
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
My heroines are always virgins. They never go to bed without a ring on their fingers; not until page 118 at least.
— Barbara Cartland
Honestly, I understand why ladies are never the heroines of anything, they simply cannot get away from their kitchens long enough to rescue anyone.
— Barbara Hamilton
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My parents told me any and every fairy-tale from all around the world. I usually gravitated towards ones with interesting, strong heroines.
— Sarah J. Maas
Good idea. I'll do it.
— Mary Connealy
I am Serene-Heart-in-the-Chaos-of-Battle. Keep a civil tongue in your head or lose it
— Sarah Rees Brennan
...all readings are provisional, and that maybe we read heroines for what we need from them at the time.
— Samantha Ellis
Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them are ruinous! — William Dean Howells
It is possible for YA heroines to go an entire book without discussing their love lives.
— Celine Kiernan
YA heroines can have romances that are subplots: can have goals other than getting/keeping a man: can put their lovers second. JUST LIKE YAheroes DO!
— Celine Kiernan
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
The problem? Heroines don't need protecting. When
— Colleen Hoover
were Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and most other fairy tale "heroines" beautiful but helpless? Why did they always have to be rescued by
— Timothy Tocher
The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.
— Robert Shea
In you, I see the heroines of Shakespeare's tragedies.You, unhappy lady, were
never saved by anybody. — Marina Tsvetaeva
There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.
— Molly Haskell
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
You may debate whether the Disney heroines fit the feminist standard, but they don't live in a democracy. Remember, they're princesses.
— Richard Corliss
There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were
— Nina Simone
I'll believe that when the Underworld freezes over and Centaurs fly.
— Amanda Bouchet
Any male who uses brutality on a weaker female who has no chance of defense is a coward.
— Laurann Dohner
Jane Austen had created six heroines, each quite different, and that gave Charlotte courage. There wasn't just one kind of woman to be.
— Shannon Hale
I've done nothing for the past five years but try to be the hero who protects her. The problem? Heroines don't need protecting.
— Colleen Hoover
There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.
— Isabella Rossellini
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
My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them.
— Sophie Kinsella
There are always these moments in life when the limits of suffering are reached and we become heroes and heroines.
— Katherine Mansfield
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
Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.
— Anita Baker
The hero sees that the event is ancillary: it must follow him.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Often the true hero and heroines of my books are the houses, the places, the communities where people find a home.
— Jackie French
I brandished my parasol at him like a rapier. You, sir, are an abominable scalawag of a man, and I'll be damned if I let you threaten me.
— Susan Dennard
Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.
— Martha Gellhorn
Yeah, I treat all my heroines like children now. I pick them up, I cuddle them, I call them baby ...
— Shahrukh Khan
That was six years ago. We can't keep turning our backs on chances to live or...at least stop denying ourselves pleasure.
— Ally Fleming
I can still love my heroine like i did when i was 26. I can still do the same action scenes..
— Shahrukh Khan
Rae Carson's heroine is a perfect blend of the ordinary and the extraordinary. I loved her.
— Megan Whalen Turner
We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.
— Catherynne M Valente
No woman is a heroine to her dentist.
— Val McDermid
When you talk about heroines and heroes, at the top of the list has got to be the single moms of America.
— Bernie Sanders
I already know you, she told him, and I love what you are. Come!A bridge opened between them. He crossed over. — B.T. Lowry
I wanted to be my own heroine.
— Jesmyn Ward
Heroes are born to be troublemakers.
— Mason Cooley
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
A female character can: Like babies, Be devoted to her lover, Cry, Be gentle, Be scared, Be uncertain, Take advice, and still be a YA heroine
— Celine Kiernan
I can't just give you all the answers. You have to earn the right to be the Progeny. - Eve
— Candace Knoebel
I have often observed that the state of motherhood can turn quite ordinary females into heroines . . .
— Kate Saunders
