Caitlin Flanagan Quotes & Sayings
14 most famous Caitlin Flanagan quotes and sayings (writer). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.”
“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.”
“Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.”
“My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.”
“I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.”
“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.”
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