" To be sure, ambition wasn’t my only motive. The voice of the Girl Poet also let me say the things I most wanted to say, to whom I most wanted to say them. It set me up to play with popular preconceptions about girls, and poets, and especially girl poets, and to do so in a way that made people listen to me and remember what they heard. The day would come when I’d have second thoughts about this approach—or at least consider the degree to which playing with those preconceptions also meant embracing them "

― Kathleen Rooney , Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk