My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.

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

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.

Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented.

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

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

Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.