21 Quotes by Sam Maggs

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?

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.

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.

History is full of lady engineers and spies and scientists. But history is also written by the victorious, and it may not surprise you that thus far the overwhelming winners have been straight white dudes. That hasn't worked out so well for everyone else.

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!

Highly educated and openly bisexual, Elvira had twice the brains of everyone around her and was consistently bored with a life that didn’t offer her much opportunity to use them.

Dream Your World. Be Your World. Flaunt Your World.

It’s time to shake off the bogus fear that pursuing any interest that falls outside the traditionally “feminine” – say, working in a STEM field, exploring the world, designing a video game – will make us complete pariahs.

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