I just started talking to girls wherever I could find them. In high school, there's always like a designated cool teacher. And they would ghost me after that. It was hard for me to be open and curious and not impose my ideas about what they ought to be doing or betray surprise or shock. But I think the truth is, I don't think there's any trick to it. I think they want to talk.
Peggy Orenstein is a journalist and author. Her latest book is Unraveling.
“The challenge is… to not want to say, I need to know what the book is about. I need to have my chapters. I need to know what exactly I'm looking for. Because it's really scary to just go out and report and have trust that there's going to be interesting things and that if you just keep going, you're going to find them. So to not foreclose possibility and options and ideas is the biggest reporting challenge for those sorts of books for me.”
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