“Shared reading promotes children’s language development, literacy, and bonding with parents. When parents and children read print books, they talked more frequently and the quality of their interactions were better.”— Tiffany Munzer, fatherly.com
“Manager: What you doing, Mick? Mickey: Writing a screenplay. It's going to be a killer. Manager: Writing? I didn't even know you could read. Mickey: And I didn't know gas stations sold women's clothes.”— David Hollander, Miki Johnson, Mickey Donovan, Jon Voight, imdb.com
“There are no Jack Kerouacs or Holden Caulfields for girls. Literary girls don’t take road-trips to find themselves; they take trips to find men. ‘Great’ books, as defined by the Western canon, didn’t contain female protagonists I could admire. In fact, they barely contained female protagonists at al…”— Kelsey McKinney, theatlantic.com