" In hindsight, I know that high school is a festering pit of boredom and hormones, not to be taken as seriously as it seemed while I was there. It is earthly purgatory before you enter the better parts of your life: you've got one foot in heaven and the other in hell. "

― Alida Nugent , You Don't Have to Like Me: Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism