I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls. - Caitlin Flanagan
Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.
- 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
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.
Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented. - Caitlin Flanagan
Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented.
Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self. - Caitlin Flanagan
Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self.
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you. - Caitlin Flanagan
If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.
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