Quotes by Anna Quindlen

"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."

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"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves."

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"Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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.'"

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