“In many respects a teenage girl's home is more important to her than a...” — Caitlin Flanagan 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.”

“Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.”

“The threat from the far right is as corrosive as the twisted Islamist ideologies so many Muslims have spoken out against.”