Expressing how much she appreciated "Kill Bill" and its subversive female characters, writer Molly Haskell noted: ".. if feminism is about anything it's about the right - the obligation, even - to explore, critically and creatively, a whole range of emotional and physical possibilities that have been throttled by restrictive taboos... I happen to think Tarantino's kung-fu divas are a great deal more original, even 'womanly' than they have been given credit for, and certainly a lot more exciting than the usual babes-in-spandex action heroines."