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Caitlin Flanagan Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self.



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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.



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If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.



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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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