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title: "2 Girlhood Quotes By Wendy McClure"
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> [“If being a girl is a frontier all its own, what is the manifest destiny?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-mcclure/if-being-a-girl-is-a-frontier-all-its-own-what-is-the-manifest-destiny/)

[Wendy McClure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-mcclure/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/651/wendy-mcclure-34188_destiny_if-being-a-girl-is-a-frontier-all-its-ow_1672057.jpg)

> [“I found the world of the Little House books to be so much less confusing, not just because it was "simpler," as plenty of people love to insist, but because it reconciled all the little contradictions of my modern girlhood.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-mcclure/i-found-the-world-of-the-little-house-books-to-be-so-much-less/)

[Wendy McClure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-mcclure/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8be/wendy-mcclure-34188_books_i-found-the-world-of-the-little-house-bo_2621697.jpg)

## More by Wendy McClure

> [“The fact that Nellie wasn't any one person but rather a composite of three of the real Laura's antagonists' worst traits makes her even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-mcclure/the-fact-that-nellie-wasn-t-any-one-person-but-rather-a-composite-of/)

[Wendy McClure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-mcclure/)

> [“I hate the thought that I'm just some kind of Russian nesting doll with the big outside and inevitably, rattling around under all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-mcclure/i-hate-the-thought-that-i-m-just-some-kind-of-russian-nesting-doll/)

[Wendy McClure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-mcclure/)

> [“It didn't feel like the last night of anything anymore, just that the world went on and would follow us home”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-mcclure/it-didn-t-feel-like-the-last-night-of-anything-anymore-just-that-the/)

[Wendy McClure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-mcclure/)

> [“...subtitled it 'Everything you Always Wanted to Know About Driving Out to Remote Locations in the Upper Midwest to Find your Childhood Imaginary Friend…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-mcclure/subtitled-it-everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-driving-out/)

[Wendy McClure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-mcclure/)

> [“For me, reading that scene never fails to bring on a brief, scalding instant of recognition in recalling exactly what it was like to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-mcclure/for-me-reading-that-scene-never-fails-to-bring-on-a-brief-scalding/)

[Wendy McClure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-mcclure/)

> [“...but Lake Pepin might be best known to most of the world as the place where, more than a hundred and thirty years ago,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-mcclure/but-lake-pepin-might-be-best-known-to-most-of-the-world-as-the-place/)

[Wendy McClure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-mcclure/)

> [“If being a girl is a frontier all its own, what is the manifest destiny?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-mcclure/if-being-a-girl-is-a-frontier-all-its-own-what-is-the-manifest-destiny/)

[Wendy McClure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-mcclure/)

> [“From everything that I'd read, End Timers were waiting for the collapse of civilization the way fans of the Twilight series awaited the trailer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-mcclure/from-everything-that-i-d-read-end-timers-were-waiting-for-the/)

[Wendy McClure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-mcclure/)

> [“I do realize how this all sounds. I realize that in this account of my journey to the Little House on the Prairie, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-mcclure/i-do-realize-how-this-all-sounds-i-realize-that-in-this-account-of-my/)

[Wendy McClure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-mcclure/)

> [“The little room was full of ordinary things that had already become precious, that I couldn't help but want to have again, to feel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-mcclure/the-little-room-was-full-of-ordinary-things-that-had-already-become/)

[Wendy McClure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-mcclure/)

> [“I found the world of the Little House books to be so much less confusing, not just because it was "simpler," as plenty of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-mcclure/i-found-the-world-of-the-little-house-books-to-be-so-much-less/)

[Wendy McClure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-mcclure/)

> [“Sometimes, Laura World wasn't a realm of log cabins or prairies, it was a way of being. Really, a way of being happy. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-mcclure/sometimes-laura-world-wasn-t-a-realm-of-log-cabins-or-prairies-it-was/)

[Wendy McClure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-mcclure/)

> [“But there was no final firestorm, just a long night of negotiations where we tried to get our old selves back, to disown who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-mcclure/but-there-was-no-final-firestorm-just-a-long-night-of-negotiations/)

[Wendy McClure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-mcclure/)

> [“It's the kind of story we learn over and over again about everything in the world: your life starts out as a wild open…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-mcclure/it-s-the-kind-of-story-we-learn-over-and-over-again-about-everything/)

[Wendy McClure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-mcclure/)

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