"I think for anyone truly interested in girls a single sentence of Simone de Beauvoir’s Second Sex or Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita or Françoise Sagan’s Bonjour Tristesse will give you more insight than Caitlin Flanagan’s whole book."—Katie Roiphe, "Girl Trouble: What Caitlin Flanagan's new book Girl Land gets wrong about girls," Slate, January 11, 2012
(picnic, lightning)
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