Well done is better than well said.
It's always too early to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
After a storm comes a calm.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Who seeks shall find.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
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.