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

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

Mothers ... would do anything to steer their daughter the right way. It is frustrating beyond measure for them when a daughter screams, 'You don't understand, and you'll never understand!' The mother stamps her foot in aggravation, but in this case the daughter is right: the mother doesn't understand. She merely remembers, and memory is separate from experience.

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.

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

Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.

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