--- title: "4 Geek Quotes By Kameron Hurley" description: "4 Geek quotes by Kameron Hurley. Plus more from Kameron Hurley and more Geek sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b94/kameron-hurley-2960_culture_on-reflection-looking-at-shows-like-this_1292631.png" --- > [“On reflection, looking at shows like this and considering my own experiences, what fascinated me was that we have so many stories…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kameron-hurley/on-reflection-looking-at-shows-like-this-and-considering-my-own/) [Kameron Hurley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kameron-hurley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b94/kameron-hurley-2960_culture_on-reflection-looking-at-shows-like-this_1292631.png) > [“I was limited by stories that came before mine. We are so often limited by our own expectations of stories, by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kameron-hurley/i-was-limited-by-stories-that-came-before-mine-we-are-so-often/) [Kameron Hurley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kameron-hurley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48a/kameron-hurley-2960_books_i-was-limited-by-stories-that-came-befor_1635458.jpg) > [“I can think of only two movies with women killers we’re meant to sympathize with, and both because they’d been sexually assaulted—Thelma…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kameron-hurley/i-can-think-of-only-two-movies-with-women-killers-we-re-meant-to/) [Kameron Hurley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kameron-hurley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb8/kameron-hurley-2960_comic-book_i-can-think-of-only-two-movies-with-wome_2726231.jpg) > [“Asking men to cut away their “feminine” traits asks them to cut away half their humanity, just as asking women to suppress…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kameron-hurley/asking-men-to-cut-away-their-feminine-traits-asks-them-to-cut-away/) [Kameron Hurley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kameron-hurley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e8/kameron-hurley-2960_culture_asking-men-to-cut-away-their-feminine-tr_2776968.jpg) ## Other authors on Geek - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-felicia-day-34851.jpg) Felicia Day 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/geek/felicia-day/) - [Sorin Suciu 8 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/geek/sorin-suciu/) - [Michael R. Underwood 8 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/geek/michael-r-underwood/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-temple-grandin-89345.jpg) Temple Grandin 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/geek/temple-grandin/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-simon-pegg-85502.jpg) Simon Pegg 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/geek/simon-pegg/) ## More by Kameron Hurley > [I'm terribly particular about what I read: lush writing, secondary world or seriously far-out science fiction, strong worldbuilding, dynamic characters. I need to have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kameron-hurley/i-m-terribly-particular-about-what-i-read-lush-writing-secondary/) [Kameron Hurley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kameron-hurley/) > [“Living is the purpose, Roh. For however long we have to do it, we live. That's all. That's all the ever was." "We aren't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kameron-hurley/living-is-the-purpose-roh-for-however-long-we-have-to-do-it-we-live/) [Kameron Hurley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kameron-hurley/) > [“Nyx was a lot of things, but forgettable wasn't one of them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kameron-hurley/nyx-was-a-lot-of-things-but-forgettable-wasn-t-one-of-them/) [Kameron Hurley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kameron-hurley/) > ['The Stars are Legion' is part space opera, part thriller, about two warring families battling it out for control over a legion of organic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kameron-hurley/the-stars-are-legion-is-part-space-opera-part-thriller-about-two/) [Kameron Hurley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kameron-hurley/) > [“Nyx was not a nice woman. She knew she didn’t deal with nice women. But she also knew the worst sorts of things these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kameron-hurley/nyx-was-not-a-nice-woman-she-knew-she-didn-t-deal-with-nice-women-but/) [Kameron Hurley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kameron-hurley/) > [“We all create the stories we need to survive”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kameron-hurley/we-all-create-the-stories-we-need-to-survive/) [Kameron Hurley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kameron-hurley/) > [“independence is one of the greatest delusions of youth”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kameron-hurley/independence-is-one-of-the-greatest-delusions-of-youth/) [Kameron Hurley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kameron-hurley/) > [I understand that space travel and expansion is just as much about altering ourselves, our attitudes, our social structures, our very biology, as it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kameron-hurley/i-understand-that-space-travel-and-expansion-is-just-as-much-about/) [Kameron Hurley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kameron-hurley/) > [I want to be constantly in awe of the possibilities of the universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kameron-hurley/i-want-to-be-constantly-in-awe-of-the-possibilities-of-the-universe/) [Kameron Hurley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kameron-hurley/) > [When I was a kid, I watched a lot of 'Twilight Zone.' My mother was obsessed with the show, as it was a staple…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kameron-hurley/when-i-was-a-kid-i-watched-a-lot-of-twilight-zone-my-mother-was/) [Kameron Hurley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kameron-hurley/) > [Short fiction isn't my natural form. It's taken a lot of work over the years to finally feel more comfortable writing stories under 80,000 words!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kameron-hurley/short-fiction-isn-t-my-natural-form-it-s-taken-a-lot-of-work-over-the/) [Kameron Hurley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kameron-hurley/) > [Know that you're gonna screw up, and be OK with it, and do better next time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kameron-hurley/know-that-you-re-gonna-screw-up-and-be-ok-with-it-and-do-better-next/) [Kameron Hurley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kameron-hurley/) > [I don't like to write about things that bore me, and that means I steer far clear of writing books that are just like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kameron-hurley/i-don-t-like-to-write-about-things-that-bore-me-and-that-means-i/) [Kameron Hurley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kameron-hurley/) > [“Rumour has it you've turned castration into an occupation." "You go cutting one guy's cock off and you never hear the end of it,"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kameron-hurley/rumour-has-it-you-ve-turned-castration-into-an-occupation-you-go/) [Kameron Hurley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kameron-hurley/) > [“Perhaps every society is a utopia when you fail to peel up all the layers and look at what's underneath”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kameron-hurley/perhaps-every-society-is-a-utopia-when-you-fail-to-peel-up-all-the/) [Kameron Hurley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kameron-hurley/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/geek/kameron-hurley/#itemlist", "name": "4 Geek Quotes By Kameron Hurley", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“On reflection, looking at shows like this and considering my own experiences, what fascinated me was that we have so many stories like this that help us empathize with monstrous men. “Yes, these men are flawed, but they are not as evil as this man.” Even more chilling, they tend to be stories that paint women as roadblocks, aggressors, antagonists, complications—but only in the context of them being a bitch, a whore, a Madonna. The women are never people. Stories about monstrous men are not meant to teach us how to empathize with the women and children murdered, but with the men fighting over their bodies. As a woman menaced by monsters, I find this particularly interesting, this erasure of me from a narrative meant to, if not justify, then explain the brokenness of men. There are shows much better at this, of course, which don’t paint women out of the story—Mad Men is the first to come to mind, and Game of Thrones—but True Detective doubled down. The women terrorized by monsters in real life are active agents. They are monster-slayers, monster-pacifiers, monster-nurturers, monster-wranglers—and some of them are monsters, too. In truth, if we are telling a tale of those who fight monsters, it fascinates me that we are not telling more women’s stories, as we’ve spun so many narratives like True Detective that so blatantly illustrate the sexist masculinity trap that turns so many human men into the very things they despise. Where are the women who fight them? Who partner with them? Who overcome them? Who battle their own monsters to fight greater ones? Because I have and continue to be one of those women, navigating a horror show world of monsters and madmen. We are women who write books and win awards and fight battles and carve out extraordinary lives from ruin and ash. We are not background scenery, our voices silenced, our motives and methods constrained to sex. I cannot fault the show’s men for forgetting that; they’ve created the world as they see it. 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