Wild Girls Quotes

“Each book was like an underwater cave, and when I rose again to the surface, I was pale and grumpy, resentful of everyone who hadn't been where I'd been.”
― Mary Stewart Atwell, Wild Girls

“The wild girl is with me always; she is my rage and my hunger, and if I live what passes for a decent life in this world, it is because I know to say no to the thing inside me that yearns, even now, to burn it all down.”
― Mary Stewart Atwell, Wild Girls

“I don't know why anybody has children," I said to Clancy. "It's like, 'Well, the world's in horrible shape, what should we do? I know, let's make more people.”
― Mary Stewart Atwell, Wild Girls

“But if the defining characteristic was not poverty but rage at her own powerlessness, nearly every girl I knew was at risk.”
― Mary Stewart Atwell, Wild Girls