Never complain and never explain.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Who seeks shall find.
Well done is better than well said.
I can, therefore I am.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
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.