The creators of kids' media had no idea they were leaving out that many female characters. They were in utter shock that the worlds they were creating were so bereft of female presences.

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.

Respect the colony as an organism rather than a mechanism with interchangeable parts.

It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.

I've always been interested in the sport even as a young kid. I liked the sport of martial arts because I loved anything that involved contact, conflict or collision.

Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.

It is not the business of religion in these days to isolate herself from the world like John the Baptist. She must go down into the world like Jesus Christ.

If things go wrong and you hit a dead end-as you will-it's just life's way of saying it's time to change course

The reason that the World Trade Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out there who don't have any hope for a better life.

Like a cat on a hot tin roof.

When you make a failure, it is because you have not asked for enough, keep on, and a larger thing then you were seeking will certainly come to you. Remember this.