Samantha Leach

“Feminist scholar Carol Gilligan argues that in adolescence, girls are encouraged to surrender their own perspectives. They’re supposed to make themselves small, focus on becoming conventionally attractive and traditionally “nice,” forgoing their confidence, spirit, and voice in favor of embodying these feminine mandates.”
― Samantha Leach, The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

“Poor little rich girls don't just wake up one day fully formed, ready to denounce the patriarchal and privileged order that they were born into in the name of a good time. It starts as a ringing, nearly imperceptible at first, that grows louder and louder until it's impossible to ignore.”
― Samantha Leach, The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia