" i liked novels with plucky heroines like Pippi Longstocking, the astringent Jane Eyre, and the daughters in Little Women, girls whose resourcefulness and intelligence don’t automatically exclude them from the pleasures of male attention.

— francine prose on her tastes in reading as an adolescent, via her book reading like a writer.

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    Francine Prose plucky heroines, indeed.
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