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Maturity Involves Being Honest And True To Oneself, Making Decisions Based On A Conscious Internal Process, Assuming Responsibility For One's Decisions, Having Healthy Relationships With Others And Developing One's Own True Gifts. It Involves Thinking About One's Environment And Deciding What One Will And Won't Accept.

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.

All Feelings Are Acceptable, But All Behavior Isn't.

The Two Most Radical Things You Can Do In America Are To Slow Down, And To Talk To Each Other. If You Do These Things, You Will Improve Your Country.

I Think Anorexia Is A Metaphor. It Is A Young Woman's Statement That She Will Become What The Culture Asks Of Its Women, Which Is That They Be Thin And Nonthreatening. Anorexia Signifies That A Young Woman Is So Delicate That, Like The Women Of China With Their Tiny Broken Feet, She Needs A Man To Shelter And Protect Her From A World She Cannot Handle. Anorexic Women Signal With Their Bodies "i Will Take Up Only A Small Amount Of Space. I Won't Get In The Way." They Signal "i Won't Be Intimidating Or Threatening." (who Is Afraid Of A Seventy-pound Adult?)