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.
It's very difficult to figure out, for me, what stops really talented young female filmmakers from having the kind of careers that their really talented young male counterparts are having.
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.
In the past a man was expected to give his seat on a bus to a woman. Today it would be much more courteous for that man to give her his job.
When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty.
What works for men does not always work for women, because success and likability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women. That's what the research shows. As a man gets more successful, everyone is rooting for him. As a woman gets more successful, both men and women like her less.
Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone, holding a crying baby.
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