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" A baby writer should take inspiration from her predecessors but also find ways to tell her own stories in her own way. "
Judith Tarr
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" The more facts one introduces, the more truth one shows, the more determined the bigot is to cling to his belief. "
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" Women in the post-Fifties world were appendages. They existed to serve men. Their lives and concerns didn't matter, except insofar as they impinged on Important Male Things. "
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" So much of our fictional medievalism is distorted through a lens of Protestantism and the Reformation, slanted even further through Victorian anti-Catholicism. The depiction of actual medieval attitudes toward the Church is remarkably rare. "
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" Yes, I do have a soft spot for complicated villains who can't help themselves. "
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" Magic is what it is, and those who work it can be male or female; it doesn't matter. What matters is power. "
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" Separation of Church and state was a radical idea when the U.S. was first founded, but it's become The Way Things Are. "
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" I like going back in time and writing historical fantasy. I use some real historical characters as a background to give depth to the fantasy. And I throw my fictional characters into the midst of this, and, so far, it has turned out interesting. "
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" Some books are a revelation. They come along at just the right time for just the right reasons. They become heart books and soul books. "
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" Rawn did her own thing in her own way. She cast the female gaze on a genre heavy with all-male quest fellowships, trophy females, and the occasional Smurfette. Her world was male-dominated and highly patriarchal, but she populated it with notable numbers of well-drawn female characters. "
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" It's sad when a woman writing fantasy in the United States in the 1970s has less actual feminist cred than Sir Walter Scott. "
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