Melanie Rehak > Quotes

“You don’t make a female character strong by playing her opposite a buffoon. You just make her strong . .”
― Melanie Rehak, Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her

“You may fire when ready”—the book chronicled the adventures of a boy named Larry Russell who was “lost overboard while on a trip with his folks from Honolulu to Hong Kong. Adrift on a bit of wreckage, he is picked up by the ‘Olympia,’ Captain Gridley, Commodore Dewey’s flagship.” A publisher bit, and the book came out, with blinding speed, in August of 1898. Its sale price was $1.25, and it was resplendent with a sailor on the cover waving a brightly colored American flag that was three times his size.”
― Melanie Rehak, Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her

“We learned from her how to think for ourselves, how to jump eagerly into adventure and then get out of the scrapes it inevitably involves, how to get to the truth, and, perhaps most importantly, how to spin into action when things are not right.”
― Melanie Rehak, Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her