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Quotes About Heroine

Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over again ten years later it is likely she would rather have a life-belt and he would rather have her have it
~ Mark Twain
I feel, that i am neither a philosopher, nor a heroine – but a woman, to whom education has given a sexual character.
~ Unknown
In the land of historical romance novels, particularly the Regencies, there is no line more quoted than this: Reformed rakes make the best husbands. It's the sort of pithy one-liner a beloved character dashes off and everyone laughs a sparkling laugh, the heroine knits her brow, and the rogue in question scowls but we all know the truth: That bad boy will soon be reformed. And he will like it.
~ Unknown
In my first novel the heroine didn't get her man, in my second the heroine was 64 years old, my third was a romantic suspense set behind the Iron Curtain, my fourth had no wedding bells, not even in the far distance.
~ Unknown
A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life.
~ Mitch Hedberg
The stories featured a heroine who was, like Beth, blessed with the gift of easy laughter. They were tales of commonplace courage and optimism, for I knew from my own experience that everyday virtues endure best, and that quiet courage is worth more than the grandest derring-do. Thus "Aunt Dimity" was born, a heroine for the common woman.
~ Nancy Atherton
Other good reading from Japan includes Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen, with its heroine who finds whatever comfort she can in food; Miyuki
~ Nancy Pearl
Fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by daylight, never running from a real fight, she is the one named Sailor Moon!
~ Naoko Takeuchi
Jane austen says: a heroine has pride despite her imperfections.
~ Unknown
Why is it that in all the adventure movies the heroine doesn't have to get up and go to work?
~ Patricia Briggs
In so many YA books the heroine, who's just a regular girl, has to choose between two dreamboats who are both, for no particular reason, madly in love with her, which is probably why these books are labeled fiction.
~ Paul Rudnick