It's really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet - which we do.

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

Archers are pretty focused.

Archery is something that I took up later and didn't know I had a natural aptitude for.

Kids need to see entertainment where females are valued as much as males.

The main thing about archery is a battle with yourself. You can ruin it all. Once you have learned the technique, the point is to recreate the perfect technique over and over and over.

Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.

So many female characters are the girlfriend of the person having the adventure. I want to play baseball, I don't want to be the girlfriend of the one [who plays].

I wish I knew who said it, but my favorite quote is, "If a person can do it, I can do it."

Instead of trying to manufacture feelings, use the way you already feel. Or at least add that in.

It's partly because our culture so hyper-sexualizes females that if you don't measure up to whatever we're forced to think is the standard, then you feel inadequate.

I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.

The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.

...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.

SHUT UP!...PADDLE!

A blissfully united family shines much brighter than most of life's greatest blessings.

I'm not greedy at all. Sometimes I pinch myself because of what I've got.

We have a very real God with a very real presence.

Once the high priests and the traders took over, we were lost as a species.

Ignore the scale, and make the process your goal.

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.