girlhood
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Death is not the only source of lasting pain, of course: Ms. Carr writes with touching power of the divorce-related family separations of her own girlhood.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
In every decade, America rediscovers that girlhood is in crisis.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
In the 1980s, animated Disney princesses were not the omnipresent texts of girlhood they became the following decade, but Cinderella stories were nevertheless everywhere you looked.
From Salon • Jan. 17, 2026
She was in and out of psychiatric wards throughout our girlhood.
From BBC • Jan. 5, 2026
Out of habit she made a beeline to the favorite shelves from her girlhood, the ones where the pony stories were kept.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
