"To really love Joan Didion—to have been blown……" — Caitlin Flanagan
"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."
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15 Quotes by Caitlin Flanagan
Caitlin Flanagan has 15 quotes on this site.
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My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and…
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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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Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules,…
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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.
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I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when…
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If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that…
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My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.
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Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.
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Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into…
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I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and…
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