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“Who runs the world? Girls.”
—Beyoncé Knowles

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6. I’m crazy. That’s what he said, anyway.

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“Help me,” a voice whispered, and I was so surprised I fell back on my butt, nearly taking the knob with me.

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“I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.” – Mary Wollstonecraft

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I wore the most androgynous of children’s clothes. Half of them were hand me downs, from my male cousins. She and my father weren’t progressive parents. They weren’t actively avoiding gender norms. Now I think they just had no idea what they were doing.