Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
I can, therefore I am.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
You never know what motivates you.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
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.