Most parents of adolescent girls have the goal of keeping their daughters safe while they grow up and explore the world. The parents' job is to protect, the daughter's job is to explore.

Intelligent resistance keeps the true self alive

When one of us tells the truth, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our pain and that of others.

Traditionally parents have wondered what their teens were doing, but now teens are much more likely to be doing things that can get them killed.

I want to write. I have always wanted to write. I do not care it I am not good at it. I just want to try.

Girls developed eating disorders when our culture developed a standard of beauty that they couldn't obtain by being healthy. When unnatural thinness became attractive, girls did unnatural things to be thin.

Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.