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" As a woman, I don't feel like I have a responsibility to create better female characters. I feel like I have a responsibility to create good characters. Because the truth is, those kinds of things ghettoize us even more as writers. "

Courtney A. Kemp

Truth

Feel

Woman

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Courtney A. Kemp

Lucky

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You

Where

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Girl

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