Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self.

- Caitlin Flanagan

Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.

- Caitlin Flanagan

Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within th…

- Caitlin Flanagan

Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented.

- Caitlin Flanagan

Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.

- Caitlin Flanagan

I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or do…

- Caitlin Flanagan

What the altar-bound of today end up buying from their numberless vendors is a dog's breakfast of bridal excess - part society wedding of the twentie…

- Caitlin Flanagan

If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.

- Caitlin Flanagan

In many respects a teenage girl's home is more important to her than at any time since she was a small child. She also needs emotional support and pr…

- Caitlin Flanagan