“I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I hadn't known that before; I thought I was just short.”

On her first day of kindergarten, from Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady (1990)

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American writer 1936–2016

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