Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
It's always too early to quit.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Know or listen to those who know.
After a storm comes a calm.
Who seeks shall find.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Only the educated are free.
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.