Peggy Orenstein is the author of the New York Times bestseller Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, an Oscar, an Atomic Bomb, a Romantic Night, and One Woman's Quest to Become a Mother and Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap . A contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine , she has been published in, among others, USA Today ; Vogue ; Parenting ; O, The Oprah Magazine ; Salon ; and The New Yorker . Orenstein lives in Northern California with her husband and their daughter, Daisy.