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title: "2 Bad person Quotes By Sara Paretsky"
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> [I was reading Raymond Chandler very much with the feminist eye. In six of his seven novels, it's the woman who presents herself in a sexual way, who is the main bad person. And then you start reading more fiction,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-paretsky/i-was-reading-raymond-chandler-very-much-with-the-feminist-eye-in-six/)

[Sara Paretsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-paretsky/)

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> [I began wanting to create a detective who really turned the tables on that image of women, to know that you could have a sex life and not be a bad person. You could have a sex life and still…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-paretsky/i-began-wanting-to-create-a-detective-who-really-turned-the-tables-on/)

[Sara Paretsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-paretsky/)

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## Other authors on Bad person

## More by Sara Paretsky

> [Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-paretsky/rule-number-something-or-other-never-tell-anybody-anything-unless-you/)

[Sara Paretsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-paretsky/)

> [Heart surgeons do not have the world's smallest egos: when you ask them to name the world's three leading practitioners, they never can remember…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-paretsky/heart-surgeons-do-not-have-the-world-s-smallest-egos-when-you-ask/)

[Sara Paretsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-paretsky/)

> [I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-paretsky/i-always-wrote-my-first-story-was-published-in-the-magazine-the/)

[Sara Paretsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-paretsky/)

> [I'm a grandmother, and a mighty proud one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-paretsky/i-m-a-grandmother-and-a-mighty-proud-one/)

[Sara Paretsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-paretsky/)

> [Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-paretsky/organizer-is-kind-of-a-grand-term-for-what-i-was-doing/)

[Sara Paretsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-paretsky/)

> [I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-paretsky/i-thought-it-was-time-for-a-tough-smart-likable-female-private/)

[Sara Paretsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-paretsky/)

> [Don't tell me I have latent sexism or racism that I need to confront. I don't believe that. I think we are so burned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-paretsky/don-t-tell-me-i-have-latent-sexism-or-racism-that-i-need-to-confront/)

[Sara Paretsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-paretsky/)

> [The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-paretsky/the-possibility-of-bringing-white-collar-criminals-to-justice-is-ever/)

[Sara Paretsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-paretsky/)

> [These events are swirling around them. In the white community, people felt like they had no control over their neighborhoods, their destiny. In the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-paretsky/these-events-are-swirling-around-them-in-the-white-community-people/)

[Sara Paretsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-paretsky/)

> [No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-paretsky/no-agent-wants-to-see-a-book-until-he-or-she-has-decided-whether-to/)

[Sara Paretsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-paretsky/)

> [“But one of them had on an Army medal, a service medal, something like that. Do you know all of Chad's Army friends?" Radke…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-paretsky/but-one-of-them-had-on-an-army-medal-a-service-medal-something-like/)

[Sara Paretsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-paretsky/)

> [Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-paretsky/live-disasters-are-wonderful-attractions-when-you-re-safe-on-the/)

[Sara Paretsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-paretsky/)

> [“about your actions. You keep me totally in”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-paretsky/about-your-actions-you-keep-me-totally-in/)

[Sara Paretsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-paretsky/)

> [Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-paretsky/around-the-time-i-turned-30-i-wanted-to-publish-a-novel/)

[Sara Paretsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-paretsky/)

> [I'm very honoured that there is a loyal following and I hope it continues](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-paretsky/i-m-very-honoured-that-there-is-a-loyal-following-and-i-hope-it/)

[Sara Paretsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-paretsky/)

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