Rachel Simmons, born August 10, 1974, is an American author of the book Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls published in 2002. (ISBN 0156027348)
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Simmons graduated from Vassar College and was a Rhodes Scholar at Lincoln College, Oxford where she began studying female aggression.[1] She is a native of Rockville, Maryland, her mother Claire is a Jewish historian and her father Luiz R. S. Simmons is an attorney and a member of the Maryland General Assembly.
On September 1, 2009 Simmons was interviewed on NBC's The Today Show[2] about her new book "The Curse of the Good Girl". Rachel Simmons recently gave a speech about empowering girls to Qualters Middle School in Mansfield Massachusetts to sixth and seventh grade girls.