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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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