6/5/2023 0 Comments Saving opheliaOphelia inspired several painfully earnest term papers and eventually, in a roundabout way, my employment at a teen magazine, where I hoped to set a better example for girls coming up. The volume, with its dreaming blond cover girl gazing out into the middle distance, traveled with me for years, from dorm to dorm to post-college apartment. The book, a bestselling publishing phenomenon, presented a complete explanation for so many of my feelings about the world it was my first time feeling seen by a work of popular psychology. When Mary Pipher’s Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls came out in 1994, I was 16, and had recently passed through the early-adolescent crisis that Pipher’s book defined. The Queen’s Corgis May Not Be Dead, but There’s a New Royal Dog on the Scene I Became a Mother When Somebody Suddenly Handed Me a Baby I Guess I Should Explain Why Taylor Swift Fans Want to Kill One Another Over Her New Boyfriend What Really Happened With Meghan and Harry’s “Near Catastrophic Car Chase”? The Details Are Revealing.
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