"I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore"
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The shopping mall is doing a lot of symbolic work here. It’s not just a retail venue; it’s a quintessentially American third space, built for crowds, anonymity, and frictionless consumption. Saying she’ll “rarely go” isn’t a snub of mass taste so much as an admission that the old promise of the mall - safety through normalcy - feels broken. For a famous actor, the subtext includes stalking and unwanted access. For a woman who has been publicly open about trauma and who became a prominent advocate around health issues, it also reads like self-protection that’s been practiced, not improvised.
Drescher’s intent feels practical: draw boundaries, model them, normalize them. The quiet cultural sting is that her caution doesn’t sound paranoid anymore; it sounds like what a lot of people do, privately, when public life starts to feel like an avoidable hazard.
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| Topic | Self-Care |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Drescher, Fran. (2026, January 17). I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-choose-the-places-i-go-to-carefully-and-wisely-56707/
Chicago Style
Drescher, Fran. "I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-choose-the-places-i-go-to-carefully-and-wisely-56707/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-choose-the-places-i-go-to-carefully-and-wisely-56707/. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.









