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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

Topics: Book Children Closest Dinner Doing Feel Her Little Miss Mother Much Nearby Oven Playing Project Reading Some Very I Feel

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Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.

~Caitlin Flanagan

Topics: Being Danger Divorce Fairy Fairy Tale Independence Means Meant Novel Tale Unwanted Vulnerability

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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.

~Caitlin Flanagan

Topics: Always Children Delighted Did Enough Go Liked Love Loved Off Parents Private Private School School See Summer Teach Them Thought Used Vacation Well Well Enough

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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.

~Caitlin Flanagan

Topics: Away Been Come Couple Culture Generations Girl Having Immigrant Myself Only Servant

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My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.

~Caitlin Flanagan

Topics: Behalf California Farm Involved Migrant Mother Very Work Workers

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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.

~Caitlin Flanagan

Topics: Both Coming Height Influence Influenced Joan My Own Own Reader Really Were

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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

Topics: Children Daughters Father Grow Grow Up Hard Hard Way Known Lot Sons Up Way Writer Writers

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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.

~Caitlin Flanagan

Topics: Deeper Following Going Interest Just Keep Keep Going Path Things Writer You

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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.

~Caitlin Flanagan

Topics: Best Construct Deeply Escaping Girl Kind Own Pursuing Readers Reading Really Story Thoughts Way Within World Your Yourself

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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

Topics: Adult Boundaries Feel Girl Limits Looking Places Really Rules Safe Where

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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