42 Quotes About Heroines

We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.

A hero: a man or woman who is unsatisfied by his condition, and resolves to do something about it.

Ligeia, Annabel Lee, and Berenice, Supernal beauties, pleasing to the eye,Were temporary mates and marble-cheekedLike timeless funerary monuments.Tremaine’s Rowena, Lady Madeline,Insidiously felled and pushed offstage,Had met goth’s Mister Goodbar on the page.First, females got top billed — — then burying.What makes an author kill his heroines?[Source: "Poe and His Women" a poem by LindaAnn LoSchiavo; first published by Bewildering Stories Magazine, 2019]

In all the tales of adventure Clara had ever heard, it was never young girls, who were daring. It was always boys running off to rescue a friend or fetch much-needed medicine or stumble into good fortune. Clara knew girls would be daring if given half the chance. And she intended to take that chance, right from under the pale nose of Mr. Earwood.

Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Who Do I see Before Me? I see a Girl Who Is Fearless Because Her Reflection Reflects Her Faith. - Kailin Gow, Fearless Fairy Tales Series

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

I've never been very good at giving people what they want.

The best heroines, she'd always believed, took their fate into their own hands.

I think we often hold heroines to an absurd standard. Be brave! Be wise! Always know what's in your heart and speak the truth of it! No and no and no. We fight to be brave. We learn to be wise. We struggle to know ourselves and voice what we want.