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" So many people are of mixed heritage; everyone is from somewhere else. "

G. Willow Wilson

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

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" In prose, you have a lot more room for digression, for very meaty kinds of dialogues. In graphic novels, you're writing haiku-length dialogue. Your job is to be efficient, to get out of the way of the art. "

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" 'Air' is very placeless - it's set in many different countries, and much of the story is about going places rather than being places. 'Air' is about travelers, and I'm a chronic traveler. "

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" For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam. "

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" The transition between life in red-state America and life in the Arab capital was at times overwhelming because of the traditional segregation of men and women in many public and private settings. "

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

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" Superheroes don't often get their powers in one fell swoop. It's like superhero puberty. "

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" Americans look at the Middle East as a source of trauma because of 9/11. At the same time, I could see the fear going on in the Middle East as well - which would be the next country to be invaded or sanctioned? Being around those tensions was traumatic for me. "

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" Because the traditional mode of dress for Muslim women is so distinct - the headcovering, which is not there for guys - women carry a greater burden of representation than Muslim men do in non-Muslim societies. "

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" I don't think there's something inherently irreligious about comics. "

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

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" I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into. "

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

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" In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman's body, Heaven. "

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" I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things. "

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" Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam. "

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" 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. "

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" As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman! "

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" We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.' "

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