You can't write something actively trying to please everyone - you're going to end up with watery soup … - Kelly Sue DeConnick

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I'm an actor, in particular, that likes to have a mask or something that can help me distance myself from the character. Like the moustache or an accent.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

You can't write something actively trying to please everyone - you're going to end up with watery soup that way. You just have to write stories you would want to read and hope that people like them.

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Comics are reflective of what's going on in larger culture. Wonder Woman came to be in her position when women were first entering the workplace in numbers during the war. Then Wonder Woman had another rise in the '70s when Gloria Steinem latched on to her as an icon for the [feminist] movement. I think we're seeing another wave of feminism today, a fourth wave characterized by intersectionality and the internet. And I think it falls right in line that we would see another wave of superheroines coming to the fore.

Fall, Icon, Reflective, Steinem, Thinking, War

If you're not interested in your work, you're not doing it right.

Ifs, Interested, Not Interested, Right, Work

There's a thing that creeps into this conversation. . . that if you complain about the depiction of women [in comics], it becomes, 'Well, but ladies - the dudes are idealized too. ' And the thing is that the dudes are idealized for strength and the women are idealized for sexual availability. It's very, very different. The women's costumes are cut in such a way that I could give a cervical exam to 90% of our heroines. And I don't have a medical degree! So if I can find it, that's impressive.

Availability, Cutting, Giving, Idealized, Medical

When I'm looking for a strong female character, or a strong character at all, I'm looking for a character that has a purpose in that story, that has an interior life of some sort. They don't have to be physically strong; they don't have to be morally strong or ethically strong, because men and women come in a huge variety of all of those things. Emotionally, ethically - I'm less concerned with that. I just don't want them to be props. That's the only thing that offends me.

Character, Huge, Men, Morally, Story, Strong

I just did an arc with Warren Ellis - and no one else on the planet could get away with this, because I think this is like harassment? - But Warren felt like there was a depiction of Spider-Woman where it looked like her waist perhaps didn't contain any internal organs. And he suggested very quietly. . . 'You should fix that, or else I will come to your house and nail your feet to the floor and set your house on fire. '. . . And it totally got fixed!

Feet, Fire, Floor, House, Thinking, Waist