Female Lead Characters

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

“If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)

“I wander on, and wave my hands,
And sing, and shake my heavy locks.
The grey wolf knows me; by one ear
I lead along the woodland deer;
The hares run by me growing bold.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That’s what their substance is.”
—Jonathan Miller (b. 1936)