1. Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.-Ava Duvernay
2. We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.-Maeve Binchy
3. Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book.-Mark Twain
4. You don’t need princes to save you. I don’t have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.-Neil Gaiman
5. Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.-Nora Ephron
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6. You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do not belong to any nation, nor to any religion, nor exclusively to any race. Wherever woman is found, they are found.-Robert Green Ingersoll
7. My heroines, more often than not, are the ones who are troubled and resistant.-Sylvia Day
8. She’s the ulimate heroine, strong-willed and independent, intelligent, loyal, but at the same time, she’s not flawless, she’s not above mistakes, or falling in love.-Tammara Webber
9. My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.-Agnes De Mille
10. Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.-Anita Baker
11. Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren’t relatable, and if you can’t put yourself in the protagonist’s shoes, not only will they not inspire you, but the book will be pretty boring.-Cassandra Clare
12. I just don’t see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.-Cate Blanchett
13. Great battles can make great heroes and heroines.-Ezra Taft Benson
14. Turn the page, your heroine is still there, breathe, relax, life is beautiful: you’re in a book!-Gabrielle Dubois
15. A strong woman builds her world by picking up the broken pieces.-iamsophie
16. If she can bite a vulture, she can jump a crack.-Kenneth Oppel
17. Romantic heroes and heroines are a bit different from the sort of people we run into every day.-Leigh Michaels
18. Heroine: a woman of heroic spirit; the principal female person who figures in a remarkable action.-Mindy McGinnis
19. There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.-Nina Simone
20. The old, defiant chant rose in her mind: If I want, I will learn. If I want, I will fight. If I want, I will live. And I want. And I will. This was going to be fun.-P.C. Hodgell
21. 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
22. It is said that no star is a heroine to her makeup artist.-Richard Corliss
23. To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.-Simone Weil
24. When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.-Susan Elizabeth Phillips
25. She was a predator – a creature of the night who rejoiced in the thrill of the hunt.-Alan Kinross
26. When you are the darkest presence in the room there is very little to fear.-A. R. Torre
27. Don’t let them take away the hero or heroine in you!-Avijeet Das
28. We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.-Catherynne M. Valente
29. We heroines don’t get good roles.-Hema Malini
30. There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.-Isabella Rossellini