I am not sure that the inner world of teenage girls has changed. What's most important to kids today is still the same stuff.

Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall... I don't need to be pretty anymore. I just am who I am.

Jack Thorne writes so well for messed-up teenage girls.

I find teenage girls endlessly funny.

I am such a rewriter; I have so many notebooks filled with drafts you wouldn't believe.

Teenage girls in Africa are the most vulnerable population in the world. They do more work than their brothers. They are far more vulnerable to dropping out and being forced into domestic labor ... forced marriages, prostitution.