i think it's brave: to be 13

How our inner child isn't just like... a very young one. It's also you as a pre-teen and teenager. Remember her??

The normal turbulence and awkwardness of middle school was magnified by perpetual “new-girl-ness

I think there’s a safety in girlhood, in the mistakes and the naïveté, the youth and maybe even the beauty, which is all pushed by the media we consume,” Ms. Reese said. “Womanhood, meanwhile, is seeped with this lack of playfulness, seriousness, aging — the horror, right?”