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The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks QUOTES

The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks QUOTES

1 " Being a fangirl is the best thing that's ever happened to me. ...We know what we're into, we love hard, and we're okay with it. "

― Sam Maggs , The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks

2 " Anyone who shows up for a midnight opening-night screening of the latest, shiniest geek flick must be a diehard nerd. I mean, you'd have to be a killer-huge fan to wait in line for hours for the newest Star Wars or Marvel Universe film, right? "

― Sam Maggs , The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks

3 " Book clubs are totally dope - like English class if you were allowed to read only books that you actually like and snack and sip while discussing them. "

― Sam Maggs , The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks

4 " Dream Your World. Be Your World. Flaunt Your World. "

― Sam Maggs , The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks

5 " We know what we’re into, we love hard, and we’re okay with it. But we don’t have it easy. "

― Sam Maggs , The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks

6 " fiction, no matter the form, allows you to live a thousand meaningful experiences and relationships that you could never have in real life. Getting invested in a fictional world means you have a wonderful imagination, a big heart, and the capacity for endless creativity. No one can say anything bad about that. "

― Sam Maggs , The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks

7 " Whatever you want to do—start now. No one needs to give you permission. No one needs to invite you to the table. Just "

― Sam Maggs , The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks

8 " Do you want every human everywhere—regardless of gender, race, class, sexuality, or fandom—to have the same rights? Then congrats: you are a feminist. Huzzah! "

― Sam Maggs , The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks

9 " You’re not a true fan if you only like the Marvel movies; you can’t be in the anime community unless you speak fluent Japanese; you’re not allowed to dress up as Ms. Marvel unless you’ve read every Ms. Marvel comic, ever. "

― Sam Maggs , The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks

10 " Women are becoming the driving force behind geek culture, and we shouldn’t be relegated to the sidelines. "

― Sam Maggs , The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks

11 " Can we all just agree that Han shot first? "

― Sam Maggs , The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks

12 " If you’re just getting into the comics, start with Runaways, a series about teenagers who discover their parents are supervillains. "

― Sam Maggs , The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks

13 " TYPICAL TROLOLOL: “Sure, but even Virginia Woolf said in A Room of One’s Own that ‘a woman must have money,’ so obviously all girls are just out for cash. "

― Sam Maggs , The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks

14 " (Surprisingly, the term has been around since at least 1782, when Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, wrote in a letter to her mother that her “feels” made her cry and gave her insomnia, similar to how a modern fangirl might feel after finishing the Mass Effect trilogy.) Feels "

― Sam Maggs , The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks