Adolescence Is When Girls Experience Social Pressure

Girls Developed Eating Disorders When Our Culture Developed A Standard Of Beauty That They Couldn't Obtain By Being Healthy. When Unnatural Thinness Became Attractive, Girls Did Unnatural Things To Be Thin.

We Live In A World Filled With Language. Language Imparts Identity, Meaning, And Perspective To Our Human Community. Writers Are Either Polluters Or Part Of The Clean-up Team. Just As The Language Of Power And Greed Has The Potential To Destroy Us, The Language Of Reason And Empathy Has The Power To Save Us. Writers Can Inspire A Kinder, Fairer, More Beautiful World, Or Invite Selfishness, Stereotyping, And Violence. Writers Can Unite People Or Divide Them.

Parents Wrongly Assume That Their Daughters Live In A World Similar To The One They Experienced As Adolescents. They Are Dead Wrong. Their Daughters Live In A Media-drenched World Floded With Junk Values. As Girls Turn From Their Parents, They Turn To This World For Guidance About How To Be An Adult.

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.

The Fullness Of Life Comes From An Identity Built On Giving And On Joy.