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I've read every Flanagan essay with pleasure if simply because it's a glorious type of fiction born of some nagging feeling of inadequacy. I've recognize her type of prattle as a secularized version of Marianism, and dismiss it accordingly. If anyone out there is really made to feel badly because Ms Flanagan thinks working mothers are beyond the pale, I humbly suggest that the problem lies more with their own insecurities than it does Caitlin's rather obvious hypocrisy and over-developed sense of entitlement.