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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls. Caitlin Flanagan Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys. Caitlin Flanagan Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence. Caitlin Flanagan Read Quote
If you’re a writer, you just keep following the path – keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you. Caitlin Flanagan Read Quote
Female adolescence is – universally – an emotionally and psychologically intense period. Caitlin Flanagan Read Quote
