“The odyssey of American men in Paris, from Hemingway to Richard Wright, is canonical, as familiar to us as a ride on a bateau mouche. For the women students of the same generation, no matter what their ultimate destinies, the traces of their experience are harder to convey. (…) These young women are determined not so much to ‘embrace irresponsibility’— James Baldwin’s idea about the expatriate student— as to embrace a new language and master a highly coded way of life” (5).

–Alice Kaplan, Dreaming in French: the Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis.