Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Never complain and never explain.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Leap, and the net will appear.
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.