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• My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can…
• To really love Joan Didion—to have been blown over by things like the smell of jasmine and the packing list she kept…
• Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.
• Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.
• Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
• Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where…
• I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.
• I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was…
• If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.
• My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.
• Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.
• Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and…

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