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

Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented.

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.

My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.

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.