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

Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented.

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

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

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.

What the altar-bound of today end up buying from their numberless vendors is a dog's breakfast of bridal excess - part society wedding of the twenties, part Long Island Italian wedding of the fifties. It's The Philadelphia Story and The Wedding Singer served up together in one curious and costly buffet.

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