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“We have the composite sketch in our pockets. We held it up to our fathers while they slept.”
― Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party

“Even the men who laugh their condescending laughs when a teen girl faints at the sight of her favorite pop star, even those men are teen girls, the way they want so badly to be big and important and worshipped by someone.”
― Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party

“WHEN I SAY THAT WE ARE ALL TEEN GIRLS what I mean is that when my grandmother called to ask why I didn’t respond to her letter, all I heard was, Why didn’t you text me back? Why don’t you love me?”
― Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party

“They see us as kids now, but the beatdowns will be different when they don’t. There is a special hatred reserved for women and women alone.”
― Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party