Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.

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

I used to teach at a private school, and the parents thought I loved their children. I did not love their children! I liked them well enough, but I was always delighted to see them go off for summer vacation.

I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.

My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.