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Judith Tarr

Magic is what it is, and those who work it can be male or female; it doesn’t matter. What matters is power.

– Judith Tarr

Judith Tarr

Rawn did her own thing in her own way. She cast the female gaze on a genre heavy with all-male quest fellowships, trophy females, and the occasional Smurfette. Her world was male-dominated and highly patriarchal, but she populated it with notable numbers of well-drawn female characters.

– Judith Tarr

Judith Tarr

It’s sad when a woman writing fantasy in the United States in the 1970s has less actual feminist cred than Sir Walter Scott.

– Judith Tarr

Judith Tarr

The more facts one introduces, the more truth one shows, the more determined the bigot is to cling to his belief.

– Judith Tarr

Judith Tarr

Separation of Church and state was a radical idea when the U.S. was first founded, but it’s become The Way Things Are.

– Judith Tarr

Judith Tarr

So much of our fictional medievalism is distorted through a lens of Protestantism and the Reformation, slanted even further through Victorian anti-Catholicism. The depiction of actual medieval attitudes toward the Church is remarkably rare.

– Judith Tarr

Judith Tarr

Women in the post-Fifties world were appendages. They existed to serve men. Their lives and concerns didn’t matter, except insofar as they impinged on Important Male Things.

– Judith Tarr

Judith Tarr

A baby writer should take inspiration from her predecessors but also find ways to tell her own stories in her own way.

– Judith Tarr

Judith Tarr

Yes, I do have a soft spot for complicated villains who can’t help themselves.

– Judith Tarr

Judith Tarr

The Seventies were an interesting time to be a reader or writer of fantasy. Tolkien was the great master. Lin Carter was resurrecting wonders of British and American fantasy from the early twentieth century in his Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series.

– Judith Tarr

Judith Tarr

Some books are a revelation. They come along at just the right time for just the right reasons. They become heart books and soul books.

– Judith Tarr

Judith Tarr

I like going back in time and writing historical fantasy. I use some real historical characters as a background to give depth to the fantasy. And I throw my fictional characters into the midst of this, and, so far, it has turned out interesting.

– Judith Tarr

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