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

Who are your favorite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as...

And you have all these Flash Thompsons and Harry Osborns hovering around you, trying to make a move. Because…you’re basically amazing.

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...

My body shook from pain, exhaustion, and the beginning of shock. I’d pay for all the powers I’d used, but the portal most of all. Good girls weren’t supposed to open hell dimensions.

She seemed like the kind of woman who would fall in love with the sky.

To quote French author Francois Mauriac, ‘Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who your are’ is true enough, but I’d know you better if you told me what you reread.

The day came when she discovered sex, sensuality, and literature; she said, ‘I submit! Let my life be henceforth ruled by poetry. Let me reign as the queen of my dreams until I become nothing...

A glad zest and hopefulness might be inspired even in the most jaded and ennui-cursed, were there in our homes such simple, truthful natures as that of my heroine, and it is in the sphere...