Conversations Quote by Peggy Orenstein

“I aspire to become a beacon of motivation for young women to cope with their challenges , stay resilient against the odds and get…

— Arcilia Mankoai Mothae

“What do you do?” she asked again. And that’s when I had the epiphany: Sarging is for losers. Somewhere along the line, sarging became…

— Neil Strauss

“This was a time of life, she understood, in which you might not know what you were, but that was all right. You judged…

— Meg Wolitzer

“It seemed any young woman at odds with her place in life--be she a genteel lady or a serving girl--might find a happier home…

— Tessa Dare

“We talk about the disappointments of early adolescence - the betrayals by friends, the discovery that one is not beautiful by cultural standards, the…

— Mary Pipher

“It is important that girls know the obstacles they will face throughout their lives, but it is also essential that they know that these…

— Elena Favilli

“She’d spent most of her twenties dreading becoming an adult, and all of her thirties waiting to feel like an adult. The day she’d…

— Lillianna Blake

“For many, the twenties seem like the time of infinite possibility, although in retrospect a woman will almost always idealize her thirties.”

— Mireille Guiliano

“address the great hunger on the part of high-aiming women for advice that speaks to our discontent—and to our ambition to be purely and…

— Debra Condren

“Being young was her thing, and she was the best at it. But every year, more and more girls came out of nowhere and…

— B.J. Novak

A girl in the middle years also becomes more centered in her soul-life, the feelings of her heart, and she needs our guidance to…

— Jeanne Elium

“She is focused on living her own full life, following her own agenda and cultivating her actual self, rather than reinventing herself or pining…

— Debra Ollivier