“Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: …” — 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.

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.