Meg Wolitzer's 'The Female Persuasion' leads the charge toward a better, feminist world

“Above all, be the heroine of your own life, not the victim,” said the writer, reporter and filmmaker Nora Ephron in a 1996 commencement speech at her alma mater, Wellesley College. Throughout her career Ephron had mentored many younger women, including the novelist Meg Wolitzer, author, most recently,...