#heroine

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

— Izabella Scorupco

#choice #heroine #never #really

The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength. ↗

— Robert Shea

#destroyed #element #greatest #greatest strength #heroes

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were. ↗

— Nina Simone

#heroes #heroines #knowing #not knowing #people

She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong for love and yet the narrator went on describing her desire. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#heroine #love #romance #love

Here’s what I know: death abducts the dying, but grief steals from those left behind. ↗

— Katherine Owen

#heroine-s-journey #loss #love #romance #death

To quote French author Francois Mauriac, 'Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who your are' is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread. ↗

— Sarah Wendell

#heroines #reading #romance #love

And Mother, I love her dearly, but she flies into a panic whenever I mention women’s rights. As she sees it, it will be so much more difficult to marry me off if I am not only of a weak constitution but of a progressive mind as well. ↗

— Gwenn Wright

#gwenn-wright #katherine-demure #love-story #strong-heroine #suffrage

While he gave Ella enormous credit for summing the situation so succinctly, part of him was still waiting for her to crumple on the floor in a heap. “Yes it does. But please, don’t be frightened–” “Oh pack it in,” she snapped, re-lacing the top of her bodice. “You’re not marrying a wilting sunflower you know. ↗

— Michelle Smart

#romantic-comedy #romantic

I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She's selfish, she's childish, she's immature and because I'm doing a three-book arc I really played that up in the first book. I wanted the reader to be annoyed with her at times. ↗

— Amber Benson

#arc #because #book #childish #create

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

— Cate Blanchett

#i #just #my own #myself #narrative