What goes up must come down, and for women in Hollywood, the turnaround is worse than the ruthless law of physics.

There’s an evident tug of love and hate from both ends of the spectrum of belief. What lies within the grey area, however, is fashion. 

My local library never stood out to me as a child. It didn’t smell of old vintage paperbacks or look like the perfect autumnal picture of academia that I would see in the movies. It stood on the main highway of my small Texas town, next to the courthouse and public pool. But there was always a piece of magic in every library visit. Whether it was beaming as I turned in my completed summer library challenge to the librarian or sneaking upstairs to the young adult novel section as a child under...