Becoming a woman is an act partly of nature and partly of self-invention. - Caitlin Flanagan

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I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted.

Caitlin Flanagan

Becoming a woman is an act partly of nature and partly of self-invention.

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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.

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Mothers. . . would do anything to steer their daughter the right way. It is frustrating beyond measure for them when a daughter screams, 'You don't understand, and you'll never understand!' The mother stamps her foot in aggravation, but in this case the daughter is right: the mother doesn't understand. She merely remembers, and memory is separate from experience.

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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.

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It can be demonstrated from history that no society has ever survived after its family life deteriorated.

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Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented.

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