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

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.

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

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

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.