“All my life, I’ve thought that if I couldn’t say anything boys found interesting, I might as well shut up. But now I realize there was that whole other, invisible half of the world – girls – that I could speak to instead. A whole other half equally silent and frustrated, just waiting to be given the smallest starting signal – the tiniest starter culture – and they would explode into words, and song, and action, and relieved, euphoric cries of “Me too! I feel this too!”
