Julia Alvarez (heritage: Dominican Republic)
ONCE UPON A QUINCEANERA
C 2007 by the author
published by Viking (the Penguin Group)
...page 197
"I thrived at Syracuse University, falling in love, but not loosing my focus, and therefore losing my lovers. Over time I found that if I stayed true to what I loved to do most men fell away on their very own. Given their druthers men - at least of my generation - seemed to want a woman to be preoccupied with them, not with her poems and novels.
