Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Who seeks shall find.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Never complain and never explain.
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.