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What posters/photographs/pieces of artwork are hanging on their wall?

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There’s something powerful in reading stories about other women who embody characteristics you want for yourself, or teach you that it’s okay to be the things you want to be.

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Creating a villainous character is so much more than giving a fictional person a devil-may-care attitude; with it comes a great degree of complexity, which is by no means easy to navigate.

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Are you Fiona or Lip? Ian or Mickey?

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Date a woman who reads, who gets lost in bookstores and within the stories of places and people, falling in love with characters she’s never met and worlds she’s never been to.

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Ten years from now you won’t remember the test you failed or the interview you bombed or the underwhelming date that left you feeling pessimistic about the dating scene as a whole. What you’ll remember are the people who turned it all around.

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Hermes scarves, and strappy sandals as she pounces around Italy. A wardrobe so Pinterest-board worthy, it was destined to be replicated by women everywhere.

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I want to go to there.

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The truth is, Hollywood has a tendency to treat female protagonists as second-class citizens. The majority of female characters are still mothers, girlfriends, wives. or the “means well” secretary/assistant to the male hero.

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Zoë Washburne – ISTJ