#heroine

Another tug and a yank at my chestnut curls and she snarls at me, “You are so much like her.” This is something my mother often says and never explains. Though it is a great mystery to me it is also a blessing, for she always hurries from the room after saying it. ↗

— Gwenn Wright

#dark-romance #gothic-romance #strong-heroine #suspense-drama #thriller

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead. ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#authors #books #heroine #love #stories

First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#book #contingent #first #form #heroine

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

— Simone Weil

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It seemed to me that Mr. Forrester would approve of a woman who could follow him in conversation and not be baffled by ledgers and currency conversions. I had grossly overestimated him. ↗

— Gwenn Wright

#family-saga #gothic-romance #historical-fiction #strong-heroine #suspense

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

— Richard Corliss

#her #heroine #makeup #said #star

I think, with the gay liberation movement has had need for heroes and heroines, and it would be rather nice to have Abraham Lincoln as your poster boy, wouldn't it? ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#abraham lincoln #boy #gay #had #heroes

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

#fiction #generally #goes #heroines #heros

I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

#i #patti #patti smith #pretty #she

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

— Sylvia Day

#more #often #ones #resistant #than