I can, therefore I am.
Only the educated are free.
If you think you can do it, you can.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Never complain and never explain.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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.