“I take the view that having my romantic ingenue say ‘Eh, wot, shut up, Romeo, oh, you’re so weird, eh, shut up, I hate you’ would be slightly less effective than my own timeless poaching.”— Ben Elton, Will Shakespeare, David Mitchell, imdb.com
“Stories are built on tropes, and tropes about women are built on binaries.”— Cate Young, manrepeller.com