Caitlin Flanagan
Caitlin Flanagan
Caitlin Flanaganis an American writer and social critic. A former staff writer at The New Yorker, she is a contributor to The Atlantic. Her book To Hell with All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife was published by Little, Brown in 2006...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
daughter mother growing-up
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.
mother california migrants
My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.
path interest deeper
If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.
height influence reader
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.
girl couple culture
I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.
girl safe limits
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.
female intense periods
Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
girl fate culture
Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.
mean divorce independence
Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.
smell suitcases lists
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.
girl teenage boys
Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.
girl reading escaping
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.
women self becoming
Becoming a woman is an act partly of nature and partly of self-invention.
dog italian islands
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.