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" Being a woman in a male-dominated industry sort of sucks, but it doesn't suck any more than being a woman in the world. My advice? Be terrifying. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

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" There's nothing less funny than trying to force funny. "

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" With Marvel, I obviously don't own the characters, so there are levels of approval to go through. But I'm very seldom told no, and never without reason. Maybe I've just been lucky; I don't know, but I don't think it's as frustrating as people generally imagine. I act as though I own it all while I'm writing, I think. I hope, anyway. "

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" Complicated feelings are fertile soil for creative ideas. "

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" Everything that feminism stands for is everything American, white, red and blue democratic. It is all the same stuff. So, I am boggled that I should have to give up this term that encapsulates what I want for my children, for my world, culture, brothers and sister because someone else thinks it means I don't shave my armpits. "

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" If you can remove a female character from your plot and replace her with a sexy lamp and your story still works, you're a hack. "

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" Girls have always read comics. There's nothing intrinsically masculine about telling stories with pictures. "

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" I think 'The Avengers' is a Black Widow movie. She saves the day. And if you take her out, the plot does not function. "

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" I used to write reviews for 'Artbomb.' Our policy was to only cover books we loved and recommended. "

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" One of the things about comics is people can linger on images and words as long as they want. "

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" The first gift my husband ever gave me was a pack of index cards. I'm pretty sure the second was a 'Powers' scriptbook. This was well before either of us worked for Marvel. "

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" I think women have every right to feel like they're the protagonists in their own stories. "

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" Because of the nature of monthly comics and deadline, I pretty much have to work on whatever's on fire, I'm afraid. "

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" Going into the second arc, I'm making a conscious effort to do something I say I never do, which is to change my style because of feedback. I'm trying to make 'Pretty Deadly' more accessible by being more clear in the writing. "

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" I kind of resent the suggestion that there would be something inherent about superheroes that wouldn't be of interest to women. That makes me nuts. I'm a 5-foot tall woman with a quick temper who always looks like a child, so power fantasies are not strange to me. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" I'm really just trying... to write what feels true to me. I don't think about a lofty responsibility. I think I'd be paralyzed by that. Like any of my male colleagues, I'm writing the stories that interest me in a way that feels true to me. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" I like my heroes to be imperfect; I like them to be striving. I identify with that kind of aspiration to do better. "

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" I feel like I have a kind of mirror blindness where it's hard for me to characterize or analyze my own work. I suspect I'm not unique in this regard. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" Anybody who's read 'Pretty Deadly' knows that I tend to savor an immersive, 'You'll figure it out as you go!' style. 'Pretty Deadly' really does not hold your hand. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" Gray space is fertile ground for fiction. When I can see both sides of an argument and feel strongly in both directions, then there's a story there, then I can write real characters that I care about and believe in and champion on both sides. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" I do make some conscious efforts to write female friendships, intergenerational female friendships. I make a conscious effort to include things that I see as important real parts of my life that are not reflected as much as I think they should be in popular culture. We very seldom have the opportunity to see women compete and remain friends. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" If there was any creature in American culture more derided than the young girl... I know people will argue with me about that, but everything girls are into gets ridiculed. I have a lot of compassion in my heart for girls in their teens and twenties who are going through this particular passage, because I get it. It makes sense! "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" 'Pretty Deadly' is the story of these immortal and mortal characters, and the mortals' story follows Sarah's family, a black family, through the ages. I never made the choice of, 'Oh, this is gonna be the story of an African American family!' "

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" Part of a writer's job is just spacing out, looking into the air and imagining things. "

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" I hate when I get asked, 'What's it like to be a woman in comics?' "

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" I am a nerd among nerds. "

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" Marvel is run by some very smart people, and they seem to pride themselves on the fact that they don't just find talent, they groom talent. "

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" With 'Pretty Deadly,' I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a three-act structure in it. I don't know - someone probably can. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" You'll go mad trying to figure out what people want. I don't bother. I write the stories I want to read. "

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" 'Female Convict 701: Scorpion' is based on a manga as is 'Lady Snowblood.' I saw 'Lady Snowblood' in the theater between writing issue three and issue four of the first arc of 'Pretty Deadly,' and I was really surprised how much I was influenced by it. "

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