“There is a paradox at the heart of contemporary Girl Land, and this paradox makes the emotional experience of female adolescence more intense and difficult than ever. On the one hand, never in history have girls had so many opportunities,… — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share
“Becoming a woman is an act partly of nature and partly of self-invention; Girl Land is the place and time in which all of this is worked out…there is a paradox at the heart of contemporary Girl Land, and this… — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
Mothers ... would do anything to steer their daughter the right way. It is frustrating beyond measure for them when a daughter screams, 'You… — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel… — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
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… — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
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… — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share
Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your… — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
“There is a paradox at the heart of contemporary Girl Land, and this paradox makes the emotional experience of female adolescence more intense and difficult than ever. On the one hand, never in history have girls had so many opportunities, or shared so fully in the kind of power that was only recently reserved for boys. Girls now outperform boys… — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share
Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence. — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself. — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self. — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys. — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you. — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California. — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
