“A motion picture must be true to life. If a picture portrays a false emotion it trains people seeing it to react abnormally.”

—  William Moulton Marston

Jill Lepore, The Secret History of Wonder Woman (2014), p. 136.

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American psychologist, lawyer, inventor and comic book writ… 1893–1947

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