![]() ![]() It feels harder than ever to be a young girl. I don’t, but I fear I would be the most over-protective mother in the world. But if you had a 13-year-old daughter, would you feel compelled to keep a close watch over her? And you can’t control either of those perceptions because you know you are both, neither.Ģ) I don’t know if you have children. And, for girls, it often feels like twice the struggle, half the world looking at you and seeing a child, and half seeing nearly a woman. You feel wrong about everything all the time. You seek experience, a fearless leap into adulthood, and then it’s just this series of brutal revelations. And I do remember strongly that feeling Lizzie has, of wanting a world steeped in drama and excitement. I vividly recall the sense of being so uncomfortable in my own skin, and constantly catapulting forward into experience, then retreating in a panic. Was your own early adolescence equally difficult? 1) You perfectly capture the discomfort and awkwardness of 13-year-old girls, and how deeply they can feel like misfits. ![]()
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