Life Lessons for the Teenage Girl : Quotes, Inspiration, and Advice for Women by Women provides valuable and entertaining advice to adolescent girls from women who have attained success in business, politics, sports, and entertainment. These are women teen girls can look up to as role models. Some are well known to today's teens, while others are women from whom they could still learn much. The goal is to spare the reader some of the challenges and frustrations that the contributors themselves may have faced, and if the reader cannot be spared, she can at least gain comfort in the knowledge that she is not alone in the experience. The author draws upon her education and experience as a clinical psychologist to explore and examine the individual contributions. By doing so, she offers insight into mental health exercises and coping mechanisms girls can utilize to survive and thrive beyond their teen years.