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

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

—Caitlin Flanagan

Image, I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her

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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 doing some little project.

—Caitlin Flanagan

Image, Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented.

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Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented.

—Caitlin Flanagan

Image, Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a

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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 the construct of a story.

—Caitlin Flanagan

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Image, Becoming a woman is an act partly of nature and partly of self-invention.

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Becoming a woman is an act partly of nature and partly of self-invention.

—Caitlin Flanagan

Image, Planning a wedding is hell. Things are said. Doors are slammed. Quarrels

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Planning a wedding is hell. Things are said. Doors are slammed. Quarrels about the most inconsequential things--yellow tablecloths or white? hors d'oeuvres set out on tables or passed around on trays?--are often pitched at such a level that it seems the combatants may never recover from them. Much of the anxiety, of course, is tribal. It is wrenching to have to open the sacred circle to admit an outsider.

—Caitlin Flanagan

Image, It can be demonstrated from history that no society has ever survived

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It can be demonstrated from history that no society has ever survived after its family life deteriorated.

—Caitlin Flanagan

Image, Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and

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Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.

—Caitlin Flanagan

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Image, Mothers … would do anything to steer their daughter the right way. It

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Mothers ... would do anything to steer their daughter the right way. It is frustrating beyond measure for them when a daughter screams, 'You don't understand, and you'll never understand!' The mother stamps her foot in aggravation, but in this case the daughter is right: the mother doesn't understand. She merely remembers, and memory is separate from experience.

—Caitlin Flanagan

Image, My father was a writer; I’ve known a lot of children of

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My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.

—Caitlin Flanagan

Image, To really love Joan Didion—to have been blown over by things

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To really love Joan Didion—to have been blown over by things like the smell of jasmine and the packing list she kept by her suitcase—you have to be female.

—Caitlin Flanagan

Image, I come from an immigrant culture. I’m only a couple of generations

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I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.

—Caitlin Flanagan

Image, Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to

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

—Caitlin Flanagan

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Image, I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were

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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.

—Caitlin Flanagan

Image, I used to teach at a private school, and the parents thought

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I used to teach at a private school, and the parents thought I loved their children. I did not love their children! I liked them well enough, but I was always delighted to see them go off for summer vacation.

—Caitlin Flanagan

Image, Female adolescence is – universally – an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

—Caitlin Flanagan

Image, Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a

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Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.

—Caitlin Flanagan