Female Lead Characters

Famous quotes containing the words female, lead and/or characters:

“Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.”
—Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)

“None can lead this life who are not almost amphibious.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)