Know or listen to those who know.
After a storm comes a calm.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
It's always too early to quit.
I can, therefore I am.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Never complain and never explain.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.