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.
Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.
When a woman is exhorted to be compliant, cooperative, and quiet, to not make upset or go against the old guard, she is pressed into living a most unnatural life- a life that is self-blinding.. . without innovation. The world-wide issue for women is that under such conditions they are not only silenced, they are put to sleep. Their concerns, their viewpoints, their own truths are vaporized.
I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.
We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments.
The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.
In the '50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.
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