Mary Pipher

One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.

Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger.

Intelligent resistance keeps the true self alive.

Girls developed eating disorders when our culture developed a standard of beauty that they couldnt obtain by being healthy. When unnatural thinness became attractive girls did unnatural things to be thin.

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

Therapy isn't radio. We don't need to constantly fill the air with sounds. Sometimes, when it's quiet, surprising things happen.

Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders its teeming with energy and fraught with danger.