Only the educated are free.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Know or listen to those who know.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.