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

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

My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.

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.

To really love Joan Didion—to have been blown over by things like the smell of jasmine and the packing list she kept by her suitcase—you have to be female.

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.