“A reporter from the New York Observer called [Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer] Egan and informed her that not only had La Force and Wortham published her story, they had also published a worshipful article by a young writer who called Egan her girl crush. “No! Oh my God!” Egan said. The reporter asked her whether she had any girl crushes of her own. She was diplomatic. “The term feels—how to put this?—the generation after mine,” Egan replied. “To me, I don’t think in terms of girl crushes, no. I’ve got friends that I adore who are female. But calling it a girl crush feels a little like wearing pigtails.””

Maybe “What we've got here is a failure to [mature].”

It must be sad to want to be someone other than yourself.