Mary Gaitskill - Between my hatred of mall sho...

Between my hatred of mall shopping and my mother's firm ideas about how a girl should dress, my style choices were pretty unenthusiastic: plaid skirts or whatever empire-waisted thingamabob was on sale at Sears.

Mary Gaitskill

American Novelist

Born: Nov 11, 1954

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Shopping, Mother, Girl, Hatred, Style, Whatever, Dress, Pretty, About, Firm, Between, Ideas, How, Were, Sale, Mall, Choices, Should, Skirts

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