Pippi Longstocking Youth Quotes

After the debacle of the coffee party, where Pippi tries (and fails) to fit in with the ladies, she slides back into her rightful role as the local wunderkind. And when she tells her friends in the last line that she's going to be a pirate when she grows up, we get the feeling that what she's actually saying is that she'll never stop playing—she'll hold on to the magic of her youth forever and, in effect, never grow up at all.