If you're going through hell, keep going.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Know or listen to those who know.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Wherever you are - be all there.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
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.