Carolyn Mackler
Carolyn Mackler
Carolyn Mackleris an American author of young adult literature. She has written five novels including Love and Other Four-Letter Words, The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, which won and honorable mention from the Michael L. Printz award, Vegan Virgin Valentine, Guyaholic: A Story of Finding, Flirting, Forgetting...and the Boy Who Changes Everything, Tangled. Her novels are in print in many different countries such as: the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, France, Italy, Korea, the Netherlands, Denmark, Israel, and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth13 July 1973
CountryUnited States of America
Carolyn Mackler quotes about
Never underestimate yourself
There isn't a definite right and wrong anyway. Sometimes we do what seems wrong, but we have good reasons for doing it, so it's not wrong after all.
My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.
Remember what to do when you're at the bottom of a hole? You've got to stop digging.
You know how I feel about love. It was invented to sell wedding cakes. And vacations to Waikiki.
Prior to being bullied, I was a very footloose sixth-grader. You know, I was quirky, I was creative - I really felt good in my own body. And when I was bullied in seventh grade, my self-esteem tanked.