Heroines Quotes

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

Eunice Kathleen Waymon
We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.

Elizabeth Janeway
- Women
- Knows
- Offers

Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go and do all the stuff that I love - 'Trojan horse' it. There are so many great YA heroines, and that's fantastic, but what about the emotionally complex boy out there? That's who I tend to write about.

Patrick Ness
- Great
- Write
- Working
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
- Great
- Characters
- Fiction
I’ve no idea what I shall do when I am grown! I don’t suppose there is much call for Knights or Bishops or Heroines in Omaha or even Chicago. And I’m sure other girls are much better at it than I.

Catherynne M. Valente
- Girls
- Knights
- Bishops
Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day.

Ray Bradbury
- Writing
- Morning
- Sports
Item song dancers like Silk Smitha and Jayamalini have become irrelevant. The heroines are doing those dances themselves.

Radha Ravi
I wanted to analyze how unnecessary it is to collapse a heroine into one specific mold, to give them all the same sparkly fashion, the same tiny figures, and the same homogenized plastic smile.

David Trumble