“Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its g…” — Caitlin Flanagan

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

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.

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.