Caitlin Flanagan Quotes
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“I come from an immigrant culture. Im only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.”
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“Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.”
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Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.
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— Caitlin Flanagan
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.
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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.
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Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.
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— Caitlin Flanagan
Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.
— Caitlin Flanagan
— Caitlin Flanagan
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
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
— Caitlin Flanagan
“Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented.”
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“Becoming a woman is an act partly of nature and partly of self-invention.”
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— Caitlin Flanagan
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