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Heroines Quotes

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 (1974). “Between Myth and Morning: Women Awakening”, New York : Morrow, 1974, 1975 printing.

I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like

Jane Austen, Richard Cronin, Dorothy McMillan (2005). “Emma”, p.36, Cambridge University Press

When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

Speech at Barber's Hall, London, in 1935. "Round the World for Birth Control", edited by the Birth Control International Information Centre, 1937.

She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books.

Gustave Flaubert (1993). “Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life”, Everyman's Library

A villain always preferred luring the heroine to his lair.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (2003). “Breathing Room”, Avon

The hero sees that the event is ancillary: it must follow him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.209

I wanted to be my own heroine.

Jesmyn Ward (2013). “Men We Reaped: A Memoir”, p.86, A&C Black