...in my dreams I’m slapping the heroine to her senses, because I want them to be women who make things happen, not women who things happen to.Sandra Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek (via tumbly obvs)
This is something I really need to keep in mind when evaluating characters and film/just in general bcs its easy to portray suffering either as critique or characterization but harder to show a fighter, a mover and shaker, who isn't a rock, who is able to suffer, but whose existence isn't dependent and in reaction to the things beyond their control. Too often suffering is still seen as a virtue.
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