“No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine… But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine…”
Source: Northanger Abbey
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English novelist 1775–1817Related quotes
“Does the new heroine mean your son won’t have to risk his life for her love?”
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 239
Marie-Louise von Franz (1915–1998) Swiss psychologist and scholar
Archetypal Dimensions of the Psyche (1994), The Animus, a Woman's Inner Man
Pauline Kael book State of the Art
As Simone Weil noted, it was the people with irregular and embarrassing histories who were often the heroes of the Resistance in the Second World War; the proper middle-class people may have felt they had too much to lose.
"Busybody," review of Silkwood (1984-01-09), p. 107.
State of the Art (1985)
Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist
Source: Northanger Abbey: a play in two acts, based upon the novel
“She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind
Source: The Shadow of the Wind
Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907) German artist
excerpt of her Journal, Worpswede 1897; as quoted in: Witzling (1991, p. 193) and Delia Gaze (2001) Concise Dictionary of Women Artists, p. 489
1897
Raymond Poincaré (1860–1934) 10th President of the French Republic
'Inter-Allied Conference on Reparations, etc.', Miscellaneous No. 3 (1923), pp. 123-124, quoted in Étienne Mantoux, The Carthaginian Peace, or The Economic Consequences of Mr. Keynes (London: Oxford University Press, 1946), p. 23.