Literary Heroine Quotes

#1. My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them.

Sophie Kinsella

#2. My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.

J.K. Rowling

#3. Whoever heard of a midwife as a literary heroine? Yet midwifery is the very stuff of drama. Every child is conceived either in love or lust, is born in pain, followed by joy or sometimes remorse. A midwife is in the thick of it, she sees it all.

Jennifer Worth

#4. I have a lot in common with Lewis Carroll's Alice (my favorite female literary heroine, besides Becky Sharp). I've been sent on a journey to places even bleach can't reach.

Lance Loud

#5. What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?

Saint Teresa Of Avila

#6. If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#7. The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.

Oscar Wilde

#8. While my trips are most often focused on business, I always try to take some time to experience the local culture.

Aslaug Magnusdottir

#9. Write as well as you can and finish what you start.

Ernest Hemingway,

#10. Some people argue we should solve all the problems on Earth before going off the planet, but that's like telling Lewis and Clark to stay put until the rest of the East was settled. No way.

Vint Cerf

#11. Shooting at Coco Chanel's apartment was an unexpectedly absorbing experience. The essence of Chanel is firmly rooted there in all of her possessions, and I truly believe that her spirit and soul still inhabit the second floor.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

#12. One of the most dangerous of literary ventures is the little, shy, unimportant heroine whom none of the other characters value. The danger is that your readers may agree with the other characters.

C.S. Lewis