To begin to use cultural forces for the good of our daughters we must first shake ourselves awake from the cultural trance we all live in. This is no…

- Jeanne Elium

Somehow we have been taught to believe that the experiences of girls and women are not important in the study and understanding ofhuman behavior. If …

- Jeanne Elium

Parenting is not logical. If it were, we would never have to read a book, never need a family therapist, and never feel the urge to call a close frie…

- Jeanne Elium

The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of adolescence.

- Jeanne Elium

Fences, unlike punishments, clearly mark out the perimeters of any specified territory. Young children learn where it is permissible to play, because…

- Jeanne Elium

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 learn to express her…

- Jeanne Elium

A girl must allow others to share the responsibility for care, thus enabling others to care for her. She must learn how to care inways appropriate to…

- Jeanne Elium