Emily’s Reviews > The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir > Status Update

“…how many times over all these decades have I wondered if my career was over, starting with the ‘the end of the world’ when I wasn’t accepted into the American Ballet Theatre? Lucia Chase made it dismissively clear that she didn’t need me, but, as I discovered, I didn’t need Lucia Chase. The end of the world turned out to the the beginning.

“From childhood on, not having children was as unapologetic as my ethnicity and I was just as unapologetic about it as an adult, which put me on the receiving end of such mystifying reactions as ‘you don’t really know what it’s like to be a woman until you have children’ and ‘are you a lesbian?’ Well, yes I do, and no, I’m not, so take it or leave it.