“Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults…” — Caitlin Flanagan

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

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

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

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.