"This is what writers must guard against. You can create the most wonderful, interesting, strong,..."

“This is what writers must guard against. You can create the most wonderful, interesting, strong, well-rounded women characters in the world. But if you reduce them to the usual roles in the plot — McGuffins, creatures who are acted upon rather than acting — then you haven’t actually written a strong woman character at all. You can call them powerful and liberated because they sleep around with no consequences. But if that’s all they do? If that’s the only agency they have? No.”

- Carrie Vaug...