Ann Aguirre
Ann Aguirre
Ann Aguirre is an American author of speculative fiction. She writes urban fantasy, romantic science fiction, apocalyptic paranormal romance, paranormal romantic suspense, and post-apocalyptic dystopian young-adult fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
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I’m sick of asking questions everyone else already knows the answers to.
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People try to make sense of things, and if they don’t know the answers, they make them up,because for some, a wrong answer is better than none.
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I've tried to be inclusive in my '2B' series. Over the course of three books, I wrote African-American characters, a paraplegic character, gay and lesbian characters, a bisexual, Jewish heroine, a multiracial hero, Korean and Chinese-American characters, and a multiracial supporting character.
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I am a woman. I write SF. And it's not acceptable to treat me as anything less than an equal. I won't stand for it.
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Since becoming aware of the need to be inclusive, I've tried to make my stories broader and more representative of our world.
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My life experiences are different than the average person because I've spent the last 10 years living in Mexico. I generally don't know what's going on in America, and when I do visit for work, I'm often interrogated about my life choices by random strangers.
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I've held my silence when I probably shouldn't have. But I was in the minority, a woman writing SF, and I was afraid of career backlash. I was afraid of being excluded or losing opportunities if I didn't play nice.
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The people I write are real to me, and basically, they tell me about their environments on a need-to-know basis.
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Maybe I was just one of those people who couldn't rest easy unless things went catastrophically wrong.
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Yet sometimes being a friend meant letting people do things that hurt, like putting distance between you, just because it made them happy.
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Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.
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He’s worth fighting for, but I won’t change who I am for any man. No more than he should alter himself to suit me.
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Dying isn’t like living; it requires no effort at all.
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His reply offers infinite solace in a single word. Always.