"I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors"

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It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.

— David Brin