The tension to mother the "right" way can leave a peculiar silence within mother daughter relationships--the silence of a mother'sown truth and exper…

- Elizabeth Debold

Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught ers: if they teach…

- Elizabeth Debold

Generation after generation of women have pledged to raise their daughters differently, only to find that their daughters grow up and fervently pledg…

- Elizabeth Debold

The next generation of women will enter a world in which they are perceived to have more opportunities for creating fulfilling lives than women have …

- Elizabeth Debold

Few stories are written about what happens to the princess after the wedding. Reading between the lines of other stories, we can sketch out her "happ…

- Elizabeth Debold

Listening to learn isn't about giving advice--at least not until asked--but about trying to understand exactly what someone means,how it is that some…

- Elizabeth Debold