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Caitlin Flanagan Quotes

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 twenties, part Long Island Italian wedding of the fifties. It’s The Philadelphia Story and The Wedding Singer served up together in one curious and costly buffet Picture Quote #1

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 protection from the most corrosive cultural forces that seek to exploit her when she is least able to resist Picture Quote #1

I come from an immigrant culture. I’m only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself Picture Quote #1

If you’re a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you Picture Quote #1

It can be demonstrated from history that no society has ever survived after its family life deteriorated Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented Picture Quote #1

Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I come from an immigrant culture. I’m only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself Picture Quote #1

Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 protection from the most corrosive cultural forces that seek to exploit her when she is least able to resist Picture Quote #1

Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self Picture Quote #1

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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 twenties, part Long Island Italian wedding of the fifties. It’s The Philadelphia Story and The Wedding Singer served up together in one curious and costly buffet (Caitlin Flanagan Quotes) 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 protection from the most corrosive cultural forces that seek to exploit her when she is least able to resist. (Caitlin Flanagan Quotes) I come from an immigrant culture. I’m only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself. (Caitlin Flanagan Quotes) If you’re a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you. (Caitlin Flanagan Quotes) It can be demonstrated from history that no society has ever survived after its family life deteriorated. (Caitlin Flanagan Quotes) 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 Quotes) Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented (Caitlin Flanagan Quotes) Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls (Caitlin Flanagan Quotes) 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 Quotes) I come from an immigrant culture. I’m only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself (Caitlin Flanagan Quotes) Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys (Caitlin Flanagan Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 protection from the most corrosive cultural forces that seek to exploit her when she is least able to resist (Caitlin Flanagan Quotes) Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self (Caitlin Flanagan Quotes)