Kameron Hurley

Quotes by Kameron Hurley

• Let's be real: if women were naturally anything, societies wouldn't spend so much time trying to police every aspect of their lives

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• 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.

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• Young white men in the eighteen-to-twenty-four-year-old range are often coming to grips with the fact that life isn't as easy as they were promised. I've been there myself. When you realize that life isn't going to hand you the job you want or the woman you want to fuck, you look around for someone to blame, and feminism becomes an easy target. If only women were subservient objects who stayed at home, there would be more jobs open to young white men and more women with no other option but to have sex with them for sustenance. I realize that white-man utopia sounds really pleasing to these guys, but it's basically everyone else's worst nightmare It's not so great for them either, but they won't get that for a long time, if ever.Suffice to say you won't convince them of this in an online comments section, either.

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• Asking men to cut away their —feminine— traits asks them to cut away half their humanity, just as asking women to suppress their —masculine— traits asks them to deny their full autonomy.What makes us human is not one or the other— the fist or the open palm— it's our ability to embrace both, and choose the appropriate action for the situation we're in. Because to deny one half— to burn down the world or refuse to defend the world from those who would burn it— is to deny our humanity and become something less than human.

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• I spent a great deal of my ilfe trying to be quiet and nice and not piss anyone off. I was misereable. It served no purpose. And they still came for me. It made me even easier to dismiss, to overlook, to assume I was just somebody else everybody could roll over and spout off ridiculously sexist, racist crap without dissent.But nodding and smiling gets old. It makes it easier for people to box you up and ship you off, I'm only really alive when I'm pissing people off anyway

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• If you think there's a thing— anything— women didn't do in the past, you're wrong.

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• The war had remade her. Reshaped her purpose. Why couldn't she unmake it again?

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• Let's be real: if women were naturally anything, societies wouldn't spend so much time trying to police every aspect of their lives

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• I spent a great deal of my ilfe trying to be quiet and nice and not piss anyone off. I was misereable. It served no purpose. And they still came for me. It made me even easier to dismiss, to overlook, to assume I was just somebody else everybody could roll over and spout off ridiculously sexist, racist crap without dissent.But nodding and smiling gets old. It makes it easier for people to box you up and ship you off, I'm only really alive when I'm pissing people off anyway

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• 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.

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• The war had remade her. Reshaped her purpose. Why couldn't she unmake it again?

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• If you think there's a thing— anything— women didn't do in the past, you're wrong.

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• Young white men in the eighteen-to-twenty-four-year-old range are often coming to grips with the fact that life isn't as easy as they were promised. I've been there myself. When you realize that life isn't going to hand you the job you want or the woman you want to fuck, you look around for someone to blame, and feminism becomes an easy target. If only women were subservient objects who stayed at home, there would be more jobs open to young white men and more women with no other option but to have sex with them for sustenance. I realize that white-man utopia sounds really pleasing to these guys, but it's basically everyone else's worst nightmare It's not so great for them either, but they won't get that for a long time, if ever.Suffice to say you won't convince them of this in an online comments section, either.

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• Asking men to cut away their —feminine— traits asks them to cut away half their humanity, just as asking women to suppress their —masculine— traits asks them to deny their full autonomy.What makes us human is not one or the other— the fist or the open palm— it's our ability to embrace both, and choose the appropriate action for the situation we're in. Because to deny one half— to burn down the world or refuse to defend the world from those who would burn it— is to deny our humanity and become something less than human.

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• As an introverted kid who lived in the middle of nowhere, my stories made up the whole of my social life. That meant that while other kids cultivated hobbies like skateboarding or playing the piano, I sat at home scribbling in notebooks.

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• What history taught me is that societies are not static and that the straight line of progressive ideals - this thinking we have that a society will just magically become more egalitarian over time - is patently false.

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• I understand that space travel and expansion is just as much about altering ourselves, our attitudes, our social structures, our very biology, as it is about altering the places we choose to live.

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• I can't change the preconceived notions a reader brings to a work, but I can do my best to be aware of, address, and subvert tropes and expectations that readers may have as best I can and hope I don't screw it up too much.

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• While many alternate reality stories ask, 'What might have been?' parallel universe stories literalize the war between good and evil that plays inside each of us every day. It's what makes this type of story so perfect for many fantasy tales: we're all just a coin flip away from being entirely different people.

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• I think anger of any kind is valuable. It's all about learning how to channel it. The worst thing we can do is get bored or complacent or worse - suppress our anger and then see it burst forth in unhealthy ways.

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