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

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.

Becoming a woman is an act partly of nature and partly of self-invention.

I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.

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

Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented.

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