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" I think that's a huge theme in superhero books across the board: When you have this massive power, how do you use it responsibly? When do you intervene? Those are the big questions. "

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" It seems like whenever you write about Muslims, people assume that you're writing about the Quran, you are writing about the Prophet Muhammad. There's no sense that Muslims are capable of individualism, that they're capable of making mistakes that are somehow not connected to Islam. "

G. Willow Wilson

Writing

You

Islam

" Out-marriage is an issue religious groups have been wrestling with for some time. Of course men and women fall in love. Of course it's not always convenient to their respective cultural and spiritual norms. "

" If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy. "

" When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless. "

G. Willow Wilson

Along

Ride

" I have younger friends who are in this pinch where they feel they've been counted out before they've had a chance to prove themselves. They've inherited a lot of debt - not just student debt but environmental debt, political debt. They really feel squeezed. "

" I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque. "

" Muslims are ordinary members of the working public, just like you. "

" The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy. "

" The Qur'an is in many ways far less concrete than the Bible, relying on the esoteric more often than the apparent. "

G. Willow Wilson

Bible

Far

" Being a Muslim in America, I've noticed that there's a ton of crossover between the Muslim community and geekdom. "

" People love to talk about new and different. They don't always love to buy and read new and different. "

" It took me a long time to square with the fact that none of my experiences are typical - I'm not a typical American, but I'm also not a typical Muslim. "

" Leaving your country at a tender age really rearranges the way you perceive the world. So I feel marginally attached to many places rather than deeply attached to any one place. "

" There are very religious people who write comics and who love comics. "

" The story of a passionate woman in a stale marriage is as old as Helen of Troy. "

" There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture. "

" When I need guidance or just to kvetch or to bounce ideas off of people, I go to Gail Simone, who is very much kind of the den mother of all of us who are working comics. "

" The 'Ms. Marvel' mantle has passed to 'Kamala Khan,' a high school student from Jersey City who struggles to reconcile being an American teenager with the conservative customs of her Pakistani Muslim family. "

" Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes. "

" That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met. "

" 'Lost' makes a lot of sense to me, philosophically. "

" I'm not a programmer myself, but I am a very, very picky end user of technology. I like my machines to work they way they're supposed to, all the time. "

" There is a certain danger in thinking about diversity in its own little box, as something that is somehow separate from 'normal' comic books and comics creators. "

" The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago. "

" The great thing about Cairo is the vast majority of women wear some kind of head scarf, but they are also very fashion-conscious. They love bright colors. "

" Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork. "

" I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible. "

" A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism. "

" In comics, we're all weird together. I can go to a comics convention and not stand out, even though I'm the only woman in a headscarf there, because the guy next to me has a beard and a Sailor Moon costume. "

" Choosing a spouse with religion in mind is not always a mistake, especially if your heritage and your faith are important parts of who you are. The trick is, as always, to recognize a good thing when you see it - and never mistake the bad for something more. "