Quote by Karen Hesse

“Once upon a time there was an eighteen-year-old girl who dragged her butt out of bed and hauled it all the way to school…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“Here for a moment is a glimpse of my plan: All kids will be happy learning things. The wind will smell of wild flowers.…

— Ian Dury

“However, now she was a schoolgirl no longer. She had discovered how to manage her hair, had been to one or two parties and…

— Monica Dickens

“It was spring when it happened and the schoolroom windows were open all day long, and every afternoon after Billy left we had milk…

— Ellen Gilchrist

“My schoolmates hurried home the way they always did, the bold kids scuffling and shouting and the timid, gawky ones yearning toward a brief…

— Janice Steinberg

“Our schools kept from us, for as long as they could, the dangerous, disruptive, upsetting knowledge of our own female nature.”

— Hilary Mantel

“schoolhouse and stopped, stunned by the delightful wintry scene in front of me. School often claimed my entire attention. Grace Miller—teaching assistant. I still…

— Vannetta Chapman

“It was a sunrise, a kid’s sight of snowfall on a school morning. Hope. That all this can turn out okay, that somehow a…

— David Wong

“It’s great that Mommy and Daddy did all that uncool work, so you could sit in your air-conditioned classroom and shit all over them,…

— Greg Gutfeld

“Little Life Lesson 1: Life is a lot like hair, some mornings you get up and it looks great. Other mornings you can tell…

— Michele Jaffe

“... on the lawn one late summer day, her pale hair tangled because she'd cry if anyone tried to brush it, spinning around and…

— Holly Black

“The first few weeks of school were always surreal, like you landed on an alien planet with strange teachers and unfamiliar classrooms, even though…

— S.M. Stevens