Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules. - Anna Quindlen 1 Share Now -
The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female. - Anna Quindlen 2 Share Now -
Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number. - Anna Quindlen 3 Share Now -
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. - Anna Quindlen 4 Share Now -
America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security. - Anna Quindlen 5 Share Now -
But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated. - Anna Quindlen 6 Share Now -
The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools. - Anna Quindlen 7 Share Now -
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 8 Share Now -
People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it. - Anna Quindlen 9 Share Now -
There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever. - Anna Quindlen 10 Share Now -
