To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Leap, and the net will appear.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
You never know what motivates you.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
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.