" And surely part of what I love about childhood literary heroines is the way they remind me of that bygone stretch of real innocence - the ability to experience myself however I wanted to; the long heavenly summers spent reading books on the floor, trapped in a slice of burning Texas daylight; the time when I, already a complicated female character, wouldn't hear the phrase "complicated female character" for years. Those girls are all so brave, where adult heroines are all so bitter, and I so strongly dislike what has become clear since childhood: the facts of visibility and exclusion in these stories, and the way bravery and bitterness get so concentrated in literature, for women, because there's not enough space for them in the real world. "

― Jia Tolentino , Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion