Abuse-recovery Quote by Jeanne McElvaney

“Even bullying was important to Wonder Woman, and in Sensation Comics #23 she stopped a gang who were picking on a young boy, showed…

— Tim Hanley

“Active or ambitious women were not only rare but often evil. Wonder Woman flipped this paradigm by embodying the strength, assertiveness, and independence usually…

— Tim Hanley

“She was a victim, until she decided she wasn’t. Until she realized only she had the final say in her victimhood. That it was…

— Scott Stabile

The wish to be super-strong is a healthy wish, a vital, compelling, power-producing desire. The more the Superman-Wonder Woman picture stories build up this…

— William Moulton Marston

“If I must share my story, I want to do so on my terms, without the attention that inevitably follows. I do not want…

— Roxane Gay

“I do not have a hero complex. I have always been attracted to strong, independent women. I like a girl who has her shit…

— Cheryl McIntyre

“All I wanted to do was hide away from the world, but I still had a role to play. I had to be 'Girl…

— Girl A

“She knew that women were rarely the centers of such stories. Instead, they were eye candy, arm candy, victims, or love interests. Mostly, they…

— E. Lockhart

“I hope people take away every kind of lesson, good and bad. This is a story about sacrifice, what you have to give up.…

— Maria Sharapova

“What if, for once in history, a woman's story could be untethered from what we need it to be in order to feel better…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“This is not a story for the faint of heart; this is the story of one woman's very real struggle through a world against…

— S.L. Jennings

“If she were a broken girl whose life was a wreck and would never be the same, their vigor for her story would simply…

— Charlie Donlea