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“What goes unsaid is that women might be more ambitious and focused because we’ve never had a choice. We’ve had to fight to vote, to work outside the home, to work in environments free of sexual harassment, to attend the universities of our choice, and we’ve also had to prove ourselves over and over to receive any modicum of consideration.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

“they are virtually indistinguishable from the Dark Knight. Batman himself has often been regarded by critics as part of the same Victorian Gothic lineage as Sherlock Holmes and Count Dracula—and may even be an amalgam of the two—so it is equally reasonable to consider Holmes to be”
― Marc DiPaolo, War, Politics and Superheroes: Ethics and Propaganda in Comics and Film

“This is our strength: that each of us has the capacity to be not only a monster but a mother of monsters. We can birth from our own bodies every one of men’s worst fears.”
― Jess Zimmerman, Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology

“While it could be argued that American Gothic today (such as the Batman franchise; see Figure 10) is primarily a response to the political indifference”
― Nick Groom, The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction