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When I was growing up as a young lesbian in the ’50s, I looked in vain for books about my people. I did find some paperbacks with lurid covers in the local bus station, but they ended with the gay character’s committing suicide, dying in a car crash, being sent to a mental hospital, or ‘turning’ heterosexual.

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I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better.

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I write for young people because I like them and because I think they are important. Children’s books can be mind-stretchers and imagination-ticklers and builders of good taste in a way that adult books cannot, because young people usually come to books with more open minds. It’s exciting to be able to contribute to that in a small way.

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May 18, 2024

I write for young people because I like them and because I think they are important. Children’s books can be mind-stretchers and imagination-ticklers and builders of good taste in a way that adult books cannot, because young people usually come to books with more open minds. It’s exciting to be able to contribute to that in a small way.

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May 18, 2024

I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better.

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