Mary Sues Quotes & Sayings

Few female characters get to be "the Chosen One" in science fiction and fantasy. Leia is as much the child of Darth Vader as Luke is, but only Luke gets to use the force, be recruited by his dad and ultimately save the day. We don't get impossibly clever female sleuths or the sexy spies with the awesome gadgets. And on the rare occasions that we do get those characters, they're denigrated as unrealistic Mary Sues. — Rhiannon Thomas

I've always wanted to produce. I've had my production company name for years, even though I didn't really do anything with it right away. — Catherine Bell

It's easy to get people's attention, what counts is getting their interest. — A. Philip Randolph

The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century. — Carlos Fuentes

I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay! — Quentin Crisp

I want you. I want you so badly I can't stand it. When you left, it felt like the world got darker. Like I couldn't truly see anything. Couldn't feel anything. — Rachel Vincent

She opened her curtains, and looked out towards the bit of road that lay in view, with fields beyond outside the entrance-gates. On the road there was a man with a bundle on his back and a woman carrying her baby; in the field she could see figures moving - perhaps the shepherd with his dog. Far off in the bending sky was the pearly light; and she felt the largeness of the world and the manifold wakings of men to labor and endurance. She was a part of that involuntary, palpitating life, and could neither look out on it from her luxurious shelter as a mere spectator, nor hide her eyes in selfish complaining. — George Eliot