"I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher's pet."

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Height isn't something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.

— Barbara Kingsolver