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

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Planning a wedding is hell. Things are said. Doors are slammed. Quarrels about the most inconsequential things--yellow tablecloths or white? hors d'oeuvres set out on tables or passed around on trays?--are often pitched at such a level that it seems the combatants may never recover from them. Much of the anxiety, of course, is tribal. It is wrenching to have to open the sacred circle to admit an outsider.

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Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented.

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What the altar-bound of today end up buying from their numberless vendors is a dog's breakfast of bridal excess - part society wedding of the twenties, part Long Island Italian wedding of the fifties. It's The Philadelphia Story and The Wedding Singer served up together in one curious and costly buffet.

Caitlin Flanagan

Caitlin Flanagan

Caitlin Flanagan

Born: 1961 (age 63)

Bio: Caitlin Flanagan is an American writer and social critic. A former staff writer at The New Yorker, she is a contributor to The Atlantic. Her book To Hell with All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife was published by Little, Brown in 2006.

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