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“She had to figure out how to feel good about herself apart from what a man thought of her.”

— Marybeth Mayhew Whalen

“She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself.”

— Sara Sheridan

“It wasn’t as if she’d thought it through or anything, how what a person wanted wasn’t always what they needed, and what a person…

— Shannon Celebi

“What she wanted was really two things: to be elsewhere, and to be somebody else. Or at least a version of herself that had…

— J. Robert Lennon

“I wanted to be the man she needed, one she could look up to, and who would always love and care for her. I…

— Melanie Moreland

“She realized now that her life wasn’t just about who she was, but about who she would become.”

— Robert Beatty

“she had lately come to understand injustice and tricks of fate, and how they could turn you into someone else completely, maybe even turn…

— Julie Anne Long

“She, too, could become someone else. Eventually. Or she'd told herself all these years.”

— Nicole Mones

“And she was attractive. She had an unusual mixture of innocence and individuality. A man who loved her might waken all kinds of passions…

— Anne Perry

“She was tired of everyone deciding her life for her. She was ready to figure out who she really was--not what anyone else told…

— Marissa Meyer

“...She looked at the people around her and felt not just that she was surrounded by strangers, but that she herself was strange, somehow,…

— Daphne Kalotay

“She was a good girl, he said to himself. He was thinking without quite phrasing it that no other person had ever understood him…

— Norman Mailer