Interesting JK Rowling intv excerpt on the roll of strong female characters in the Harry Potter series.

You go girl!

Very early on in writing the series, I remember a female journalist saying to me that Mrs Weasley, “Well, you know, she’s just a mother.” And I was absolutely incensed by that comment. Now, I consider myself to be a feminist, and I’d always wanted to show that just because a woman has made a choice, a free choice to say, “Well, I’m going to raise my family and that’s going to be my choice. I may go back to a career, I may have a career part time, but that’s my choice.” Doesn’t mean that that’s all she can do. And as we proved there in that little battle, Molly Weasley comes out and proves herself the equal of any warrior on that battlefield.

J. K. Rowling, born on July 31, 1965, on the women of Harry Potter. Pair with motherly advice from literary icons and women writers on the choice not to have kids. 

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