Antonya Nelson
"Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty."
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"Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty."
"أرى في المراهقات، على وجه الخصوص، المرآة الحية المثلى التي تعكس الثقافة الأمريكية بكل انحرافاتها ونفاقها؛ كيف أننا غارقون في هوس الشباب والجمال والصور المفعمة بالإيحاءات الجنسية، على سبيل المثال، بينما ندعو في الوقت ذاته إلى العفة والحشمة."
Antonya Nelson
"There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn't go away is the one to pay attention to."
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