Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.

It can be demonstrated from history that no society has ever survived after its family life deteriorated.

Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.

Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

I used to teach at a private school, and the parents thought I loved their children. I did not love their children! I liked them well enough, but I was always delighted to see them go off for summer vacation.

Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self.

If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.