There's Batman, there's Superman, there's Wonder Woman. She's the full-blown real deal.
Great battles can make great heroes and heroines.
Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go and do all the stuff that I love - 'Trojan horse' it. There are so many great YA heroines, and that's fantastic, but what about the emotionally complex boy out there? That's who I tend to write about.
My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I'd like to know.
I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like
When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.
I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect.
If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?
There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.
No woman is a heroine to her dentist.
I've always loved superheroes, and I'm sure every single kid out there is gonna love these superheroes and want to see 'Shark Boy and Lava Girl'... and the fact that it's in 3-D.
Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel.
Novels do not force their fair readers to sin, they only instruct them how to sin; the consequences of which are fully detailed, and not in a way calculated to seduce any but weak but weak minds; few of their heroines are happily disposed of.
[Sarah] Palin is solidifying her status as a bona fide American cultural heroine.
Item song dancers like Silk Smitha and Jayamalini have become irrelevant. The heroines are doing those dances themselves.
I stand on the shoulders of heroines who never sought public acclaim but served as inspirations to the generations that came after them.
There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.
Most of the female 'superhero' role models of my childhood came from novels, and they rarely had powers. Take Dorothy, for example, from 'The Wizard of Oz;' or Laura Ingalls and her sisters in the 'Little House on the Prairie' novels.
I have an affinity for Disney and the Princess.
A lot of heroines ask me to make the dance steps easier.
It is fun to explore these kick-butt characters.
Growing up, I would say Wonder Woman and Nancy Drew were definite role models for me. Historically, I know Amelia Earhart stands out for me.
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.
