She wrote an essay for The New York Times about the difficulty of Nebraska's mixed political views and need for more progressive politicians. Pipher participates actively in Nebraska state legislature and voices her opinion through letters to the editor of the Lincoln Journal Star. She returned the one she received in 2006 as a protest against the APA's acknowledgment that some of its members participate in controversial interrogation techniques at Guantánamo Bay and at US " black sites". She received two American Psychological Association Presidential Citations.
She was a Rockefeller Scholar in Residence at Bellagio in 2001. Pipher received a Bachelor of Arts degree in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1969 and a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 1977. Prior to that, she wrote The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture (2013) and the bestseller Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls (1994). Her books include A Life in Light: Meditations on Impermanence (2022) and Women Rowing North (2019), a book on aging gracefully. Additionally, sex as a topic was avoided in conversation, which resulted in many assaults and similar cases going unacknowledged.Mary Elizabeth Pipher (born October 21, 1947), also known as Mary Bray Pipher, is an American clinical psychologist and author.
This taught her that sex and boys were things to be avoided at all costs. Two of Pipher’s closest friends got pregnant and both were essentially banished from their towns and social lives. Growing up, boys were considered better at most things, girls were considered necessary for some things, and sexuality was a confusing topic. The greatest challenges Pipher lists are the attitude toward casual smoking, the disdain for divorce, the lack of attention toward abuse, and the “pervasive, low-key misogyny” (94) that impacted most aspects of life. Pipher describes her own adolescence, which was to her quite ordinary and filled with love and joy. Working with Cassie taught Pipher that her experiences were different from the experiences of girls in the ’90s and that she “had to learn from them before could help” (92). It opens with the story of Cassie, who came to Pipher for help after being sexually assaulted and blamed for the repercussions the boy faced. Chapter 4 encapsulates the differences and similarities between Pipher’s life as an adolescent girl in the 1950s and 1960s and the experiences of the girls she works with in the 1990s and beyond.
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