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Girls are 50% of the population. We deserve to represent 50% of the heroes.

Tamora Pierce

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Tamora Pierce
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
Comics Writer
Novelist
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Girls
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Hero
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There is a saying in the Islands. Beware the women of the warrior class, for all they touch is both decorative and deadly.-Yuki
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Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.
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The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.
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Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.
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Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [...] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.
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Shouldn't you know what love's like, before you begin renouncin' it George Cooper
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Wenna followed us out. You've done him some good, Clary, I have to say! He's got color in his cheeks, and he's stepping along as if he was sixty again, she told Goodwin as she walked us to the gate. You'll come back? Of course, Goodwin said. But thank Cooper for his improved spirits. Once he'd insulted her a few times, he was in the
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If I were useful, you wouldn't know it was me.
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She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday.
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I want to marry her, when I grow up to be a man.
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Raoul: Age and treachery! Neal: Youth and skill!
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I'm sorry, she said humbly. I haven't wanted to lie to you. I should hope so. You're the worst liar I've ever met. He thought about it for a moment, then added, - or the best. Now I'm all confused.
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it's your own fault for encouraging him..., you know. Now he thinks he's a human being. Neal of Queens cove
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Briar: So I guess I was the last to know. Rosethorn: Of course you are. You're a man, aren't you?
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There is power and there is power, my dear. My power can be vast, in the right places.
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If you have to hit--hit low.
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We could mate. In a year our nestlings would be large enough to mob anyone we like...Should I begin to court you? Do you like grubs or ants better?...I will be here. In case you change your mind about mating.
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Not one word, Kel warned. Tobe and I have reached an understanding. Neal's lips twitched. Why do I feel you did most of the understanding.
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I forgot my purse of laughter when I dressed this mornin', she told me. Have you not bought anythin' the last few days? Prices have gone up. Pay or starve, it's all one to me.
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