Telling Stories Never Fails To Produce Good

It's Important For Parents To Watch For Trouble And Convey To Their Daughters That, If It Comes, They Are Strong Enough To Deal With It. Parents Who Send Their [adolescent] Daughters The Message That They'll Be Overwhelmed By Problems Aren't Likely To Hear What's Really Happening.

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.

Girls Have Long Been Evaluated On The Basis Of Appearance And Caught In Myriad Double Binds: Achieve, But Not Too Much, Be Polite,but Be Yourself, Be Feminine And Adult; Be Aware Of Our Cultural Heritage, But Don't Comment On The Sexism. . . . Girls Are Trained To Be Less Than Who They Really Are. They Are Trained To Be What The Culture Wants Of Its Young Women, Not What They Themselves Want To Become.

Teenage Girls Are Extremists Who See The World In Black-and- White Terms, Missing Shades Of Gray. Life Is Either Marvelous Or Notworth Living. School Is Either Pure Torment Or Is Going Fantastically. Other People Are Either Great Or Horrible, And They Themselves Are Wonderful Or Pathetic Failures. One Day A Girl Will Refer To Herself As "the Goddess Of Social Life" And The Next Day She'll Regret That She's The "ultimate In Nerdosity.

I Think History Is Inextricably Linked To Identity. If You Don't Know Your History, If You Don't Know Your Family, Who Are You?