Book talks about playing in the closet

NEW YORK (AP) -- It's almost a rite of passage for little girls to sneak into their mother's closets, try everything on, imagine themselves as grown-ups -- and probably leave a mess behind.
In the new book "In My Mother's Closet: An Invitation to Remember" (Sorin Books), actress and writer Carrie Fisher, daughter of Debbie Reynolds, recalls her trips into The Church of Latter Day Debbie.
"Her closet wasn't off limits, but it was very much hers and therefore my younger brother Todd and I valued it. It was prized highly because we prized her highly. She was often away for work, and when we missed her we could go into her closet and do stuff like put our faces into a bunch of clothes and smell her," Fisher writes.
"I think we wore her robes, and maybe her shoes."
Joy Behar, Leslie Stahl, Mary Louise Parker and Erica Jong are among the other women who share their memories in the book compiled by Eugenia Zukerman.
Zukerman says that through this project she learned that many women consider their mothers the driving force behind their success -- and that many woman also form their personal styles based on how their mothers dressed and how much they valued fashion and appearance.