Sam Maggs Quotes

#1. History is full of lady engineers and spies and scientists. But history is also written by the victorious, and it may not surprise you that thus far the overwhelming winners have been straight white dudes. That hasn't worked out so well for everyone else.

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#2. You're not a true fan if you only like the Marvel movies; you can't be in the anime community unless you speak fluent Japanese; you're not allowed to dress up as Ms. Marvel unless you've read every Ms. Marvel comic, ever.

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#3. Book clubs are totally dope - like English class if you were allowed to read only books that you actually like and snack and sip while discussing them.

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#4. Anyone who shows up for a midnight opening-night screening of the latest, shiniest geek flick must be a diehard nerd. I mean, you'd have to be a killer-huge fan to wait in line for hours for the newest Star Wars or Marvel Universe film, right?

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#5. If you're just getting into the comics, start with Runaways, a series about teenagers who discover their parents are supervillains.

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#6. (Surprisingly, the term has been around since at least 1782, when Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, wrote in a letter to her mother that her "feels" made her cry and gave her insomnia, similar to how a modern fangirl might feel after finishing the Mass Effect trilogy.) Feels

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#7. Can we all just agree that Han shot first?

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#8. Dream Your World. Be Your World. Flaunt Your World.

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#9. Do you want every human everywhere - regardless of gender, race, class, sexuality, or fandom - to have the same rights? Then congrats: you are a feminist. Huzzah!

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#10. Being a fangirl is the best thing that's ever happened to me. ...We know what we're into, we love hard, and we're okay with it.

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#11. Whatever you want to do - start now. No one needs to give you permission. No one needs to invite you to the table. Just

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#12. We know what we're into, we love hard, and we're okay with it. But we don't have it easy.

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#13. TYPICAL TROLOLOL: "Sure, but even Virginia Woolf said in A Room of One's Own that 'a woman must have money,' so obviously all girls are just out for cash.

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#14. Women are becoming the driving force behind geek culture, and we shouldn't be relegated to the sidelines.

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