Girls are 50% of the population. We deserve to represent 50% of the heroes.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of equal representation of women in literature and media.
Tamora Pierce highlights the necessity for female characters to be equally represented in stories that celebrate heroes. Given that girls constitute half of the population, it is essential that they see themselves reflected in heroic roles, demonstrating that their contributions and experiences are equally valuable in society.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech at a women's empowerment event.
The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.
For a female to write about her feelings, and then be portrayed as some clingy, insane, desperate girlfriend in need of making you marry her and have kids with her, I think that's taking something that potentially should be celebrated - a woman writing about her feelings in a confessional way - that's taking it and turning it and twisting it into something that is frankly a little sexist.
I believe that never was a country better adapted to produce a great race of women than this Canada of ours, nor a race of women better adapted to make a great country.
The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.
Investing in women and girls may once have been considered a radical notion or even a waste of resources, but in most places in the world today, women and girls are increasingly recognized as a critical link to greater prosperity, political stability, better health and public policy.
There is nothing of greater importance to the well-being of society at large - of man as well as woman - than the true proper position of woman.
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