{"author":"Kameron Hurley","author_id":"Kameron+Hurley","total_quotes":43,"quotes":[{"text":"There is nothing I fear more than someone without memory. A person without memory is free to do anything she likes.","author":"Kameron Hurley","tags":["science-fiction","space-opera"],"id":4059,"author_id":"Kameron+Hurley"},{"text":"The monsters don't live in the belly of the world like they all say. The monsters live inside of us. We make the monsters.","author":"Kameron Hurley","tags":["science-fiction","space-opera"],"id":24632,"author_id":"Kameron+Hurley"},{"text":"I can think of only two movies with women killers we’re meant to sympathize with, and both because they’d been sexually assaulted—Thelma and Louise and Monster. And to be honest, I don’t imagine anyone would call the women in these films heroes. The popular comic book mercenary Red Sonja is, perhaps, a proper hero, but is, once again, motivated by a sexual assault. Male heroes are heroic because of what’s been done to women in their lives, often—the dead child, the dead wife. Women heroes are also heroic for what’s been done to women … to them.We build our heroes, too often, on terrible things done to women, instead of creating, simply, heroes who do things, who persevere in the face of overwhelming odds because it’s the right thing to do.","author":"Kameron Hurley","tags":["culture","feminism","geek"],"id":43194,"author_id":"Kameron+Hurley"},{"text":"Just keep in mind,' Liaro said, 'they're not going to remember the words. They'll remember how you made them feel. Make them feel something.","author":"Kameron Hurley","tags":["advice","politics","public-speaking"],"id":49522,"author_id":"Kameron+Hurley"},{"text":"We can pretend all we like that women are equal, ut as long as men and women are continually encouraged to supress the broad aspects of their humanity that we decry as 'feminine', we're all screwed. Because it's those things qe celebrate as 'other' that make us truly human. It's what we label 'soft' or 'feminune' that makes civilization possible, It's our empathy, our ability to care and nurtureand connect. It's our ability to come together. To buld. To remake. Asking men to cut away their 'feminine' traits asks them to cut away half their humanity, just as asking women to supress ther 'masculine' traits asks them to deny their full autonomy.","author":"Kameron Hurley","tags":["feminism","gender-roles"],"id":61926,"author_id":"Kameron+Hurley"},{"text":"All I am, and all I love, is war. I don't know who I will be if I stop. The world, if it is to survive, needs a leader, not a warmonger. The world I want to make does not require me.","author":"Kameron Hurley","tags":["science-fiction","space-opera"],"id":65569,"author_id":"Kameron+Hurley"},{"text":"Good luck to you,' he said, and she remembered how he had looked at her as she pinned Yah Tayyib, as if she was some kind of monster.Maybe she was.","author":"Kameron Hurley","tags":["monsters"],"id":67634,"author_id":"Kameron+Hurley"},{"text":"We must rewrite our story from one of fear to one of celebration.","author":"Kameron Hurley","tags":["celebration","fear","rewrite","story"],"id":68064,"author_id":"Kameron+Hurley"},{"text":"And there is good money to be made when things are bad.","author":"Kameron Hurley","tags":["bad","good","money"],"id":88283,"author_id":"Kameron+Hurley"},{"text":"Light doesn’t always keep the dark things away,” Nyx said.","author":"Kameron Hurley","tags":["dark","light"],"id":117627,"author_id":"Kameron+Hurley"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":43,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}