Rae Carson's heroine is a perfect blend of the ordinary and the extraordinary. I loved her.
I can still love my heroine like i did when i was 26. I can still do the same action scenes.
When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.
Make them do as you want them to," she said. "I can’t," mourned Anne. "Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say things I never meant her to. Then that spoils everything that went before and I have to write it all over again.
I really like writing heroes who arent necessarily Hollywood handsome. Personally, I think men who are self-confident, intelligent, and funny are outrageously attractive - and my heroines tend to think that, too!
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.
It was never really my choice to be an action heroine.
My heroines are always virgins. They never go to bed without a ring on their fingers; not until page 118 at least.
No woman is a heroine to her dentist.
That was how the heroine of a book would play it and Diana was still writing her own story the best heroines she'd always believed took their fate into their own hands.
[Sarah] Palin is solidifying her status as a bona fide American cultural heroine.
My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I'd like to know.
Wonderful women! Have you ever thought how much we all, and women especially, owe to Shakespeare for his vindication of women in these fearless, high-spirited, resolute and intelligent heroines?
I wanted to be my own heroine.
I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with a blotched and swollen face, and red rims to my eyes.
There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.
Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.
My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them.
Heroes are born to be troublemakers.
You can't do a movie without villains. You have to have something for the heroines or anti-heroines to be up against, and I wasn't going to contrive some monstrous female, but even if this were the most men-bashing movie ever made-let all us women get guns and kill men-it wouldn't even begin to make up for the 99% of all movies where the women are there to be caricatured as bimbos or to be skinned and decapitated. If men feel uncomfortable in the audience it is because they are identifying with the wrong character.
