Kelly Sue DeConnick quote: "I feel like I have a kind of mirror blindness where it's hard for me to characterize or analyze my own work. I suspect I'm not unique in this regard."

Yes, the Bechdel Test. It's named for Allison Bechdel, who is a comic book creator. The test is,...
KELLY SUE DECONNICK

'Pretty Deadly' is the story of these immortal and mortal characters, and the mortals' s...
KELLY SUE DECONNICK

Marvel is run by some very smart people, and they seem to pride themselves on the fact that they don...
KELLY SUE DECONNICK

I think I'm very strong at dialogue, I think I'm very strong in characterization. I think so...
KELLY SUE DECONNICK

If you want to, if you are a crazy person, you could go from idea to the stands in about four months...
KELLY SUE DECONNICK

If you can remove a female character from your plot and replace her with a sexy lamp and your story ...
KELLY SUE DECONNICK

Comics are not theatre - there's a very important difference in that the reader controls the pag...
KELLY SUE DECONNICK

I am a nerd among nerds.
KELLY SUE DECONNICK

Nothing is compulsory. Free will is paramount. But free will comes with the burden of consequences.
KELLY SUE DECONNICK

I think women have every right to feel like they're the protagonists in their own stories.
KELLY SUE DECONNICK

Gray space is fertile ground for fiction. When I can see both sides of an argument and feel strongly...
KELLY SUE DECONNICK

Anybody who's read 'Pretty Deadly' knows that I tend to savor an immersive, 'You'...
KELLY SUE DECONNICK

I tend to choose collaborators who are more courageous than I am. I think it's good for me.
KELLY SUE DECONNICK

As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our e...
SUE KELLY

Yet our small business owners across the country are unfairly losing potential interest income on a ...
SUE KELLY

Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no out...
SUE KELLY

I am committed to strengthening our agricultural economy by protecting the unique interests of small...
SUE KELLY

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality educa...
SUE KELLY

Social Security is the very foundation of retirement security for millions of Americans.
SUE KELLY

Farming in our rural communities is not just an economic industry, but a way of life.
SUE KELLY

The president's budget proposals have neglected water infrastructure.
SUE KELLY

One of my first achievements in Congress was enactment of the Hudson River Habitat Restoration Act b...
SUE KELLY

In our 21st Century economy, no American should be losing the option of earning interest on their ow...
SUE KELLY

With the enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, we have taken an important step towar...
SUE KELLY

As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of hig...
SUE KELLY

We have increased conservation spending, enacted legislation that enables us to clean up and redevel...
SUE KELLY

The sacrifices made by veterans and their willingness to fight in defense of our nation merit our de...
SUE KELLY

While we have made great progress in increasing funding for veterans' benefits, we still have a ...
SUE KELLY

Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bi...
SUE KELLY

Working toward this goal of helping local businesses grow, I have been an ardent supporter of reduci...
SUE KELLY

The president's budget proposals have neglected water infrastructure.
SUE KELLY

I remain committed to improving the government services to which Hudson Valley veterans are entitled...
SUE KELLY

With Stewart International Airport located here, the New Windsor Police Department has an added resp...
SUE KELLY

I am staunchly committed to ensuring the long-term solvency of Social Security and preserving full b...
SUE KELLY

Healthy camel crickets spend a lot of their waking hours grooming, so I have learned to recognize th...
SUE HUBBELL

Our human calendars take little notice of such dates, but nighthawk migrations tell of shortening da...
SUE HUBBELL

Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.
SUE GRAFTON

The best part of my job is that we can be making shows like 'Boardwalk', 'Thrones', ...
SUE NAEGLE

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.
SUE GRAFTON

Our wounds can so easily turn us into people we don't want to be, and we hardly see it happening. SUE FITZMAURICE

Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.
EUGENE SUE

Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their live...
SUE MURPHY

Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'
SUE HALPERN

I must have been a very strange child. I was very pretentious. Like Adrian Mole.
SUE TOWNSEND

In the wild, those traits that are adaptive for survival and reproductive advantage are brought out ...
SUE HUBBELL

Late August still feels like summer here in the Ozarks, but it is the time of year the nighthawks ar...
SUE HUBBELL

I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponen...
SUE WICKS

I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love...
SUE TOWNSEND

Strictly speaking, one never 'keeps' bees - one comes to terms with their wild nature.
SUE HUBBELL

I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and...
SUE WICKS

As long as I'm having fun, I'm not quitting.
SUE JOHANSON

Precision, directness, and quickness are what human beings are good at. What we have never been good...
SUE HUBBELL

I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more abou...
SUE GRAFTON

Según el punto en que el narrador decide callar las historias tienen un final feliz o triste.
SUE HARRISON

Players should know that if you can't make the contribution of the winning shot, that your attit...
SUE WICKS

What it means to be authentic:
- to be more concerned with truth than opinions
- to be sin...
SUE FITZMAURICE

I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every bo...
SUE GRAFTON

Stars are rare creatures, and not everyone can be one. But there isn't anyone on earth - not you...
SUE MENGERS

I try to never lose sight of what a special time it is to be a women's basketball player.
SUE WICKS

When I come off the bench, I'm looking to add energy, and then I play defense and rebound. Also,...
SUE WICKS

It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a promine...
SUE GRAFTON

My writing life is always a bit disorganized. It's hard for me to get going, but sometimes, once...
SUE MILLER

Our family was like no one else's. My schoolfriends had fathers and grandfathers and uncles who ...
SUE HUBBELL

When I was a child, I dreaded blindness. We used to ask: 'Would we rather be blind or deaf?'...
SUE TOWNSEND

My maternal grandmother, Annie Sparks, lived with our family during the while I was growing up. When...
SUE HUBBELL

I am the world's worst diabetic.
SUE TOWNSEND

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. ...
SUE GRAFTON

It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting...
SUE GRAFTON

You can really credit that to Lauren. Sometimes it just takes one player to set the tone and everybo...
SUE BIRD

The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.
SUE TOWNSEND

This is a women's league. It's important to have coaches like Anne trailblazing away. ... Women are ...
SUE BIRD

I'm not here to be small, to compare, to judge (myself or you), to fit in or to be perfect. I'm here...
SUE FITZMAURICE

Sex is... perfectly natural. It's something that's pleasurable. It's enjoyable and it en...
SUE JOHANSON

Americans are a decade behind Canada when it comes to sex education and understanding their bodies.
SUE JOHANSON

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
SUE GRAFTON

Every spring, I begin cutting my firewood for the upcoming winter. It should be cut months ahead of ...
SUE HUBBELL

The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses danc...
SUE TOWNSEND

My bees cover one thousand square miles of land that I do not own in their foraging flights, flying ...
SUE HUBBELL

Fiddling with the genetic identities of domesticated plants and animals ever since we had become hum...
SUE HUBBELL

She plays the whole game, she's always moving forward and she's opportunistic in front of the goal. ...
SUE PEET

We had library books in our house, but not our own. So you had 14 days to read them. There would be ...
SUE TOWNSEND

It was too treacherous. It was unsafe. All the coaches, except one, were in agreement (to stop the m...
SUE MILLER

You can prepay at any time. If you're making much better money in two years you can begin making tri...
SUE MILLER

[Still, you're not completely stuck with a graduated plan.] You can prepay at any time, ... If you'r...
SUE MILLER

It is ridiculous that they have been allowing the import of birds as pets in recent weeks without ev...
SUE MILLER

We worked hard to find the right site for the skate park.
SUE MILLER

among the most fascinating of human social or economic inventions.
SUE MILLER

The Story of My Father.
SUE MILLER

I wanted to write a beautiful book that was useful to other people who find themselves in the same p...
SUE MILLER

This is not a plan that is motivated by what the citizens need or want. This plan is not driven by n...
SUE MILLER

'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have g...
SUE TOWNSEND

You could meet Alf Roberts riding on a horse in the middle of the Sahara Desert and still know he?s ...
SUE NICHOLLS

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.
SUE GRAFTON

I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentu...
SUE GRAFTON

My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer...
SUE MILLER

It looks like a squeaky clean quarter.
MARK SUE

Having her take that last shot was really almost poetic. I just wish she would have hit it.
SUE SEMRAU

Wikipedia has experienced censorship at the hands of industry groups and governments, and we are - i...
SUE GARDNER

They are amazing. This migration is amazing. The whole system has to stay intact, not just the fir t...
SUE CLARK

The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey's happy as ...
SUE GRAFTON

Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is.
SUE GRAFTON

Watching 'The Jeremy Kyle Show' is my guilty pleasure.
SUE TOWNSEND

The whole thing is ludicrous. We don't just toss the team out because of their standing.
SUE HOFFMAN

Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of ...
SUE GRAFTON

I'm embarrassed for our state. We're not only finding a way to prey upon our own citizens but we're ...
SUE BERKOWITZ

Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of ...
SUE GRAFTON

We actually prefer these tags that go around your neck. At first we all had wristbands but they were...
SUE PARNELL

I commend him [Professor Schmitz] for his effort. We cannot define science in a way that includes su...
SUE GAMBLE

My overall impression is [the studio members] have done a great job in being practical but aesthetic...
SUE PHILLIPS

We have a very safe and effective vaccine against a very deadly biologic agent that we know to be in...
SUE BAILEY

Not only can she penetrate and score around the basket, but she can shoot the deep three. There are ...
SUE SEMRAU

I do think that books, good books, free you. They make you feel a citizen of the world and things li...
SUE TOWNSEND

I always wanted to be Jo in 'Little Women.' She's a bit reckless and feckless, always ge...
SUE TOWNSEND

I'm getting to the end of my magnifying glasses now. One eye's gone completely. The other is...
SUE TOWNSEND

When we saw Denny got the nod, we remained poised offensively. I appreciate that the team didn't get...
SUE ENQUIST

At times in I felt like we were really out of rhythm and out of sync. Somehow we managed to prevail ...
SUE WALKER

But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER

We played an amazing game in the second half to get back. Somebody had to win and somebody had to lo...
SUE CHITTIM

The field is strong on top, but after the top three its wide open. We've done well against several o...
SUE NYHUS

It's really been a progressive decline with a couple of troughs over the last 20 years.
SUE LEWIS

At that point, I sat down and made an alphabetical list of all the crime related words I could think...
SUE GRAFTON

I was extremely worried. What would happen to me now that they knew that I had lost my mind? Would t...
SUE WHITAKER

I tried to fight the panic and force it back down to where it had come from.
SUE WHITAKER

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. Peop...
SUE GRAFTON

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.
SUE GRAFTON

The time has come to lay that baggage down and leave behind all the struggling and striving. You can...
SUE AUGUSTINE

I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handb...
SUE TOWNSEND

S Is for Silence
SUE GRAFTON

If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them.
SUE GRAFTON

People talk about "dysfunctional" families; I've never seen any other kind
SUE GRAFTON

I think the plasticity of the novel is its greatest challenge. There are no rules; there is no neces...
SUE MILLER

We just missed a lot of bunnies and it seemed to snowball. We make those bunnies early on and it's a...
SUE MURPHY

I tell them it wasn't for a lack of effort. They tried, every second. It's just tough to have your f...
SUE MURPHY

They left the inside open. We either didn't hang on or didn't finish when we got the shots. They wer...
SUE MURPHY

You've got to have somebody there that lets them know that you care about them. And she did.
SUE MURPHY

It is a young team, and we plan on building.
SUE MURPHY

We played lousy. I think they were just not up for the game.
SUE MURPHY

Hats off to Apple Valley. They played excellent.
SUE MURPHY

Frustration?. Disappointment. ... We've been ranked No. 1, we haven't finished No. 1.
SUE MURPHY

It was a great comeback. We are improving.
SUE MURPHY

Elton turned over the keys to his vault in London and said do whatever you want to do.
SUE THOMPSON

This is one of the few places where I can come and say that a world-renowned designer designed this ...
SUE THOMPSON

He's been doing this since he was 14 - he's such a talented kid.
SUE THOMPSON

The price points are coming down. Along with better handsets, it's stimulating for 3G.
MARK SUE

Although we'd love to find background material on all of the ladies and gentlemen mentioned in the b...
SUE GATES

We have 'Wild Bill', with kiss marks all over his face and his tongue hanging out. And we have 'Trad...
SUE CARTER

If they ask me any question about any contraceptive, I can tell them what it does, how it works, but...
SUE JOHANSON

You definitely can get caught looking and being a spectator. There were just some incredible plays o...
SUE BIRD

Consumers are generally deterred when it comes to adopting the latest integrated mobile devices due ...
MARK SUE

Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their live...
SUE MURPHY

Quite frankly, it's what Holly (Johnson) told them during that timeout. Holly is a very strong leade...
SUE SEMRAU

I'm going to insist that a sign be on his door on the 5th floor. He is settled in ICU and our favori...
SUE GREENE

It just went over the top of the keeper and snuck under the crossbar.
SUE HERODES

Most lenders offer varying repayment schedules.
SUE MILLER

Thank you, Elizabeth, ... Or as we call her, Biff.
SUE SIMMONS

A lot of the raccoons we're getting are coming out of people's attics. Mom raccoons think it's a nic...
SUE SMALL

John Lundsten is so knowledgeable, he's our walking encyclopedia.
SUE JOHNSTON

The license is the culmination of 8 1/2 years of a very vigorous licensing process during which the ...
SUE MARTIN

A system doesn't necessarily mean rigid structure, but it means setting up organization that works f...
SUE SHIPMAN

It was a beautiful shot. You couldn't have asked for a nicer shot. Keepers don't stop those shots.
SUE PARKE

I did discover that if you're interested in low wages, a bookstore ranks below retail clothing sales...
SUE GRAFTON

To be on television and have my nieces and nephews see me, and seeing them wear my shirt to the game...
SUE WICKS

It's just completely nuts. We have banners and flags and hats just kind of decked out all over the p...
SUE JONES

I am destroying myself so other people can’t," she said, "and it’s the worst kind of control but...
SUE ZHAO

Maine is a movable music festival in the summertime.
SUE HUBBELL

In hindsight, we wouldn't have named them but instead let the accounting firm and bank bring them in...
SUE SMITH

I find it so liberating when other people are rude. It makes me feel mild and lazy and mean.
SUE GRAFTON

You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don...
SUE GRAFTON

She looks a lot stronger. She put on a lot of muscle and looks more confident.
SUE WRIGHT

The real you is not sad, angry, depressed, ashamed, hurt, bitter or lost. These things are not real....
SUE FITZMAURICE

It's not a matchup between Izzy and Sheryl,
SUE BIRD

We talk about it and we actually did it this time. When a player's out, you have to kind of forget a...
SUE BIRD

I haven't thought about last year at all. We've had to play as the defending champions all year and ...
SUE BIRD

What you gotta think about is what they're saying in their locker room. They need to jump on us. On ...
SUE BIRD

That's a difference maker. She averaged 24 against us this season. She only had 15, but she can erup...
SUE BIRD

It's a different group, (and) something a lot of people didn't think we could do. It's pretty amazin...
SUE BIRD

It's kind of nice to control our own destiny, and then did.
SUE BIRD

I think there's different clusters that do things together socially. Everybody watches out for every...
SUE MORGAN

[The phones were slow to catch on, since early models were big, bulky and expensive. But newer 3G pr...
MARK SUE

In preseason camp, there are no friends. when newcomers arrive trying to take not only your job, but...
SUE WICKS

Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted...
SUE GRAFTON

To instill the values for the culture was and is the responsibility of the leadership, and staff ali...
SUE MALLORY

Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are com...
SUE GRAFTON

I know there are people who believe you should forgive and forget. For the record, I'd like to say I...
SUE GRAFTON

There is a much greater skepticism toward the memories of those who claim abuse than toward the memo...
SUE CAMPBELL

The cold hard truth will fall on stony ground, whereas your all-around trashy rumor will flourish li...
SUE GRAFTON

I guess we've given them the second-best challenge of anybody.
SUE SEMRAU

The best thing about them is they didn't let us go to the offensive boards. We've been first or seco...
SUE SEMRAU

I think we continue to get better and better with our road play. It's almost like it's our home away...
SUE SEMRAU

It is interesting having two weeks off in one month, especially a month where we've had very few hom...
SUE SEMRAU

Even with Fordham and Lipscomb, we've been talking about taking it one game at a time. We've got a s...
SUE SEMRAU

It's really going to be about getting to know each other. Initially, it has to be off the court. The...
SUE SEMRAU

It feels good to be at home because it's so rare.
SUE SEMRAU

You stop a player like that if you don't have (to stop) all the other players around her. She picks ...
SUE SEMRAU

Carolina has a lot of great athletes. They're a very versatile team. They press extremely well. They...
SUE SEMRAU

I like the way that we match up with them. We're a very athletic team as well. We can defend and we ...
SUE SEMRAU

For her, the news that this disaster was coming their way was very frightening. We can all be certai...
SUE KOUF

I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you un...
SUE MILLER

We are not unhappy at all. We had just a minimum number of practices and we didn't want to throw any...
SUE SMITHLIN

The reason to forgive ourselves is not because we feel like it or because we want to see ourselves a...
SUE AUGUSTINE

I feel like I have a kind of mirror blindness where it's hard for me to characterize or analyze my own work. I suspect I'm not unique in this regard.

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I feel like I have a kind of mirror blindness where it's hard for me to characterize or analyze my own work. I suspect I'm not unique in this regard.

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