Young women aren’t allowed to be selfishly angry. They’re sometimes allowed to be angry in a sort of righteous way for other people, but they are oft… - Naomi Novik
" "Young women aren’t allowed to be selfishly angry. They’re sometimes allowed to be angry in a sort of righteous way for other people, but they are often discouraged from being like, “This is unfair to me. I’m mad for me, and I want these things for me.” I think it’s really important for women to fight against the idea that they’re not allowed to want things for themselves.
About Naomi Novik
Naomi Novik is an American writer of speculative fiction, including the Temeraire series (2006–2016), an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars involving dragons. She was a co-founder in 2007 of Archive of Our Own (AO3) an online archive of fan fiction.
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