"The Drama Years is filled with heart-stirring stories, just-been-there advice from recent teens and practical, actionable tips for parents. It's full of real girls talking about everything from stress and body image to love and materialism. Reading this book, I cringed in recognition of my own drama years, just wishing this book had been around back then and so grateful I'll have it as a guide for my own daughter."

-- Melissa Walker

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“Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.”
“Politics is still the man's game. The women are allowed to do the chores, the dirty work, and now and then--but only occasionally--one is present at some secret conference or other. But it's not the rule. They can go out and get the vote, if they can and will; they can collect money, they can be grateful for being permitted to work. But that is all.”
“Ernest Hemingway has been the most important influence on me as a writer. But at a certain point as a writer, I realized that he was writing about good people doing good things. This did not match my experience of life and so I found my sentences stretching and becoming less plain.”

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“If the desire to get somewhere is strong enough in a person, his whole being, conscious and unconscious, is always at work, looking for and devising means to get to the goal.”
“With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie.”
“OneÂ night I prayed to God, I asked could he please remove my enemies from my life, and before you knew it I started losing friends.”
“Being from Staten Island and Brooklyn, I'm used to eating pasta and meatballs every single day.”
“I'm experimenting and pushing as far as I can. I typically don't know what I was aiming for until I see what I ended up with. Then I can study and choose.”

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