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While 'Visitation Street' has the markings of a traditional whodunnit mystery - starting with a missing girl, intrigue and many suspicious characters - Pochoda shows her hand early on by fingering a culprit. The book turns, then, into a 'whydunnit.'

~Claire Cameron

Topics: Book Characters Early Girl Hand Her Intrigue Many Missing Mystery Shows Starting Street Suspicious Then Traditional Turns While

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Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.

~Claire Danes

Topics: Desperately Girl Good Good Girl Growing Growing Up Please Up Wanted

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I get a little jealous of these actor boys. They walk into a club, and in two seconds flat there are swarms of girls who are wanting so badly to touch them or just say hello. That's not the case with me, or any other girl I know.

~Claire Danes

Topics: Actor Any Badly Boy Case Club Flat Get Girl Hello Jealous Just Know Little Me Other Say Seconds Them Touch Two Walk Wanting Who

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When I was a kid, I was one of those really obnoxious 'oooh oooh' girls, with my hand up in the air constantly. I've learned over the years that that's not so attractive, so I've censored that.

~Claire Danes

Topics: Air Attractive Censored Constantly Girl Hand Kid Learned Obnoxious Over Really Those Up Years

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Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper.

~Claire Denis

Topics: Boy Girl Life Little Little Girls Live Mood Off Often Perfect Perfect Life Sent Temper Them Themselves Track Who Woman Women

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I am a small-town girl.

~Claire Mccaskill

Topics: Am Girl Small-Town I Am

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We think that we know people from this constellation of points: 'I know that story. I know that girl. I've heard that story a thousand times.' But actually, you never know that story.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Actually Girl Heard Know Never People Points Story Think Thousand Thousand Times Times You

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The fictional narratives that television, film, and the news provide for girls and young women are appalling.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Appalling Fictional Film Girl Narratives News Provide Television Women Women Are Young Young Women

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Girls, in particular, use storytelling to establish hierarchies, a pecking order. There is a sort of jockeying of who is in charge of shared history.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Charge Establish Girl History Order Particular Shared Sort Storytelling Use Who

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If you ask a ten-year-old girl what she wants to do when she grows up and a fourteen-year-old girl what she wants to be when she grows up, in many cases, the older child will have a much less free sense of what's possible.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Ask Cases Child Free Girl Grows Less Many Much Older Possible Sense She Up Wants Will You

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