"I went to an all-girls pre school where everyone went off to Harvard or Yale, and I had zero interest in doing so. I think they thought I was on drugs. There was a neighboring all-boys school, so we'd get together and do dumb things. It was your typical Catholic-American upbringing"
- Katherine Moennig
About this Quote
In this quote, starlet Katherine Moennig assesses her experience going to an all-girls pre school where the expectation was for students to go on to distinguished universities like Harvard or Yale. Nevertheless, Moennig had no interest in following this path and instead, her peers and teachers might have seen her as an outsider or "on drugs." She likewise points out a neighboring all-boys school, where she and her classmates would participate in defiant habits, perhaps as a way to break free from the stringent Catholic-American childhood that was anticipated of them. This quote highlights the pressure and expectations put on young people, and the ways in which they might withstand or rebel versus them.
This quote is written / told by Katherine Moennig somewhere between December 29, 1977 and today. She was a famous Actress from USA.
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