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Writers generally get into writing because they want to write, not because they want to be independent publishers, and you can't really fault someone for saying, 'What I'm doing right now works, so there's no reason to change it.'
- Jennifer Armintrout
#Change
#Doing
#Independent
#Now
#Reason
It's far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.
- Jennifer Armintrout
#Brush
#Death
#Far
#Impossible
#Question
If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.
- Jennifer Armintrout
#Diversity
#Justice
#Need
#Others
#Social
Every child deserves to see themselves in stories they can enjoy, but it isn't the place of white people to decide how and why those stories are created and marketed.
- Jennifer Armintrout
#People
#Place
#See
#White
#Why
As white authors, bloggers, and readers, we must stop promoting diversity as a business opportunity or a chance to buy ally points with our disposable income.
- Jennifer Armintrout
#Business
#Chance
#Diversity
#Opportunity
Our cultural discussion of fat bodies and how we clothe them has nothing to do with health concerns, the obesity epidemic, or the comfort of fat people. It has everything to do with what we expect from women, what we've been told by the fashion industry, and the value we place on 'perfect' bodies.
- Jennifer Armintrout
#Comfort
#Fashion
#Health
#Value
#Women
If I venture into the water in a bikini, the sight of my melanin-deficient Michigan belly might attract beluga whales. Sure, I could secretly live among them and learn their ancient ways, but I couldn't keep that kind of ruse up forever.
- Jennifer Armintrout
#Bikini
#Forever
#Live
#Sight
#Water
Not one person would admit that they didn't want me to wear a bikini because of their aesthetic preference - a preference that is shaped by our cultural perceptions of what is and isn't beautiful.
- Jennifer Armintrout
#Aesthetic
#Beautiful
#Bikini
#Me
#Person
Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.
- Jennifer Armintrout
#American
#Life
#Satire
#Show
#Up
Movies like 'The Interview' and 'Team America: World Police' don't often show the realities of life in North Korea and the human rights violations perpetrated by the government there.
- Jennifer Armintrout
#Government
#Life
#Movies
#Police
#World
Move over, Helen of Troy; Jenny Trout is going to wage a war on good health and fit bodies!
- Jennifer Armintrout
#Good Health
#Good
#Health
#Over
#War
Misconceptions about Young Adult fiction aren't new to fans of the genre. From being dismissed as mindless fluff for 'Twilight'-obsessed tweens, to constant warnings that the genre is dying, kerfuffles between the media and readers occur with alarming regularity.
- Jennifer Armintrout
#Adult
#Fans
#Media
#New
#Young
Because Melissa McCarthy actually is a fat woman, she isn't allowed to make brash statements about body acceptance. She has to apologize for her body.
- Jennifer Armintrout
#Acceptance
#Body
#Fat
#She
#Woman
Social media reactions to celebrity death have taken on a predictable pattern: an outpouring of shock with expressions of grief, followed by a ghoulish need to know all the details, to see the scene of the death and the family in mourning. Then a post-mortem dissection of all the perceived flaws the celebrity had.
- Jennifer Armintrout
#Death
#Details
#Family
#Social Media
The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.
- Jennifer Armintrout
#Feel
#Grief
#Person
#Sad
#Time
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