Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them? Anna Quindlen childclearenumerate share on social
After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.' Anna Quindlen hearmorningovernight Change image and share on social
If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail. Anna Quindlen eludemailten Change image and share on social
If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books. Anna Quindlen bookgodharvard Change image and share on social
I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person. Anna Quindlen comfortablepersonpersonage Change image and share on social
I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display. Anna Quindlen carecoredisplay share on social
I am an affirmative action hire. Anna Quindlen actionaffirmativehire Change image and share on social
Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around. Anna Quindlen doughideamake Change image and share on social
