Kelly Sue DeConnick Quotes

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

I'm one of those guys who believes that you need a strong woman in your life.

'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.

My interests were in fantasy more than comics growing up.

Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.

Like many traditional feminists, I became one of the boys, only better. For a while it gave me a buzz to win at their game, but ultimately, that kind of power just goes nowhere. Traditional feminism excludes men and so perpetuates conflict. I am not interested in warring about power.

I want to dominate the man's world.

I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I don't believe this is truly freedom.

Society has always been male; political power has always been in the hands of men.

I think, in the past, being brave - being powerful, being strong - were qualities that people associated with being masculine. And I think... no, I don't think - I know that now we're realizing they can be feminine, too.

One of the things I've always loved about genre, comic books, science fiction and fantasy is that there's a certain level of playfulness to them, and pure imagination and creativity.

Growing up, I didn't really read a lot of comics; we didn't really have the money to get them. But I grew up a universal fan of fantasy and sci-fi and watching a lot of TV. There's always this question of 'Are you a fan of sci-fi or fantasy?' But can't you be a fan of both? We love everything fantasy, my wife and I.

I know it sounds like I'm playing all these wives and girlfriends, but they're not waiting at home. I wear the pants.

True badassery has no gender.

Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men

Humans are humans. If somebody's mean to you, it's not gonna feel good - no matter if you're a man or a woman. I'm really proud to be a woman. I love that women can be feminine but also powerful. You know, free the nipple!

If Hillary gave up one of her balls and gave it to Obama, he'd have two.

The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege.

In our family, being powerful means you never, ever apologize for being a woman.

The Wonderbra is not a step forward for women. Nothing that hurts that much is a step forward for women.

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.

I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.

I wanted to write a song about sexism, but I didn't want to do it in a mechanical way and be like, "Don't be sexist!" because that's not how I talk in regular life.

My mother's a staunch feminist, so I grew up with very strong feminist messages. As a result, I battled her in my teenage years because my image of being a man was a deformed one.