It's always too early to quit.
Know or listen to those who know.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Leap, and the net will appear.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Well done is better than well said.
You never know what motivates you.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Always desire to learn something useful.
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.