11 Lessons We've Learned From Young Heroines in Literature

Lewis Carroll's titular character Alice from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass is a curious 7-1/2-year-old who is trying her best to be proper and mature, but longs for some excitement in her life. We can all relate to that restlessness she feels, and you can't help but feel for her when she's trying so hard to make sense of the senseless world she finds herself in. Aren't we all?

Quoted: "It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."