Strong Heroines Quotes

#1. I think as women we've always been very used to growing up reading and identifying with male protagonists, especially in fantasy. There's a saying in publishing that girls will read about boys, but boys will only read about boys, and it's important to give women strong heroines.

Cassandra Clare

#2. My parents told me any and every fairy-tale from all around the world. I usually gravitated towards ones with interesting, strong heroines.

Sarah J. Maas

#3. I'm out of the room in the next instant, like a man wanting breath, after suffocating through the horror of a burrito eating obese man's fart." - Emily Dolt

Nix Banner

#4. I am Serene-Heart-in-the-Chaos-of-Battle. Keep a civil tongue in your head or lose it

Sarah Rees Brennan

#5. Any male who uses brutality on a weaker female who has no chance of defense is a coward.

Laurann Dohner

#6. A man's car is like an extension of their ego and their manhood.

Shakira

#7. The dissenting opinions of one generation become the prevailing interpretation of the next.

Burton J. Hendrick

#8. If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.

Ulysses S. Grant

#9. I hope to grow up and see myself accepting myself and accepting time going by and everything falls.

Elena Anaya

#10. I brandished my parasol at him like a rapier. You, sir, are an abominable scalawag of a man, and I'll be damned if I let you threaten me.

Susan Dennard

#11. I became a performer because it was what I enjoyed doing.

Richard Pryor

#12. Good idea. I'll do it.

Mary Connealy

#13. I moved another step forward. "Do you know how much of my blood is soaked into the stone floor of that castle? I'd own the fucking place if blood were coin! I put myself to sleep once by counting the drops as they hit.

S.L. Jesberger

#14. Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal

#15. I loved cinema from a very young age. I was also obsessed with Hitchcock and actresses like Kim Novak in Vertigo. They all played heroines and were strong, powerful women, yet they were very feminine.

Erdem Moralioglu

#16. No doubt, much of the joy of a great romance is the moment when these stoic heroes crack open and reveal themselves to their heroines - the only women strong enough to match them.

Sarah MacLean

#17. Milligan! Come and tell us why you're so dreadfully glum!" ~ Constance, The Mysterious Benedict Society

Trenton Lee Stewart

#18. May We Love Ourselves.
May We Love Each Other.
May We Believe that Our Dreams Can Come True.
We Are Strong.
We Are Wise.
We Are the Heroines of our Own Lives
-The Heroine's Club benediction

Melia Keeton-Digby

#19. Roland gave her a courtier's smile. "And what sort of work do you do for my uncle?
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Dorian shifted on his feet and Chaol went very still, but Celaena returned Roland's smile and said, "I bury the king's opponents where nobody will ever find them.

Sarah J. Maas

#20. TV is all about hair. And then skin. And then clothing. And then it's about your voice. And finally the report, what you're actually saying. And 99 times out of 100, it never gets past the hair.

Douglas Coupland