Ellen Hopkins Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. March 26, 1955
Birthday: March 26
I felt angry, frustrated. I felt I didn't belong, not in my church, not in my home, not in my skin. Amidst the chaos, i felt alone, in need of a friend instead of a sister, someone detached from my world. The "woman's role" theory disgusted me. I would soon be a woman, and I knew I could never perform as expected. I was tired of my mom's submission to her religion, to her husband's sick quest for an heir, to his abuse. I was sick of my dad, of reaching for him as he fell farther away from us and into the arms of Johnnie WB.
source: Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Burned”, p.67, Simon and Schuster
topic: Mom, Husband, Dad, Women's Roles
