Best quotes by Marjorie Liu on Women
Checkout quotes by Marjorie Liu on Women
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‟ It's great we have a female Thor. It's great we have a black Captain America. But those are just optics; it's optics of change... Unless you have the structural diversity, the structural change behind the scenes - more women, more people of color actually calling the shots and editing these books - those optics won't last.
- Marjorie Liu
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‟ We like to imagine that women would do a better job of ruling the world - and I'm one of those optimists - but women aren't a superior kind of life form just because of our gender. We're awesome but not perfect. We're human. Just like men.
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‟ I'm a writer and a feminist of color, and I've written complex, powerful women for my entire career. I'm just one voice, but there are many others like me.
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‟ Women have been writing strong women characters for a long time - hello, Maxine Hong Kingston! - it's just taken mainstream comics a really long while to catch up.
- Marjorie Liu
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‟ As creators and as readers, we need to always be pushing it - by looking for the books, looking for the artists and people and stories to support what we feel to be a better representation of all women. Of real women.
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‟ We're not accustomed to giving women the space to express the full range of emotions and flaws that men are permitted. Anger and aggressiveness aren't part of the scale of what is acceptable behavior in women, whereas men - in reality and in fiction - are allowed a much fuller range of emotion.
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‟ As women, we have to deal with constant threats of violence. And it's in our media and fiction, too. So we internalize it.
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‟ Because there are almost no men in 'Monstress,' we're focused completely on women. It's removed from traditional structures.
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‟ Male heroes are entitled to particular privileges, and why not the women as well?
- Marjorie Liu