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5 Female Authors That Provide Hope and Inspiration To Aspiring Writers & Readers
And why you should know about them
Every day of elementary school, I got off the school bus at the county health department. My grandmother worked there and she was my ride home.
For half an hour, I’d amuse myself by leafing through pamphlets in the lobby before it was time to leave. I prided myself in being able to read the big words.
It’s true what they say — kids do pick up on almost everything.
I had no understanding, but I knew a lot of random stuff about STDs. I giggled when I saw the basket of free condoms in the bathroom. And sometimes I had to turn my head when a pregnant person came in because I knew they had been “doing it”.
Whatever that meant.
Despite having the environment and the resources, I didn’t know anything about anything and that included my body, puberty, and everything that comes with it.
I can attribute learning the important stuff back then to Judy Blume and Margaret Simon.
That blue, hardback, well-worn copy of Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret kicked off my lifelong love affair with feminist authors and I haven’t looked back since.
