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

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

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

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.

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

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.