When I tell French parents that I know lots of American kids who will eat only pasta or only white rice, they… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
When I moved to Europe 12 years ago, my biggest concern was whether I'd ever speak decent French. Practically every American I… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
Optimism - even, and perhaps especially in the face of difficulty - has long been an American hallmark. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
I spend much of my free time listening to podcasts of American comedians talking to each other. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
Podcasts immersed me in colloquial English and put me back in the American zeitgeist. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
As an American married to an Englishman and living in France, I've spent much of my adult life trying to decode the… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
Around my neighborhood, I'm known as the American who talks to her computer while she types. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
I'm a third-generation Miamian. I'm fond of it. I'm an expatriate, so it's the only American city I can still legitimately claim. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
There's an American idea that you want to look as young as you can for as long as you can. If you… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
I've got letters from all over the world saying what you're describing as American parenting is Chilean middle-class parenting, or it is… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
This idea - that the only way to mend the relationship post-affair is through therapy - is unique to the American script. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
In the English books, the American kids' books, typically, there is a problem, the characters grapple with that problem, and the problem… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
“if you act (and dress) as if you have a fascinating inner life, you may soon find that you actually do—and that you feel… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
Practically every time I speak up at a school conference, a political event, or my apartment building association's annual meeting, I'm met with a… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
The French talk about education, the education of their children. They don't talk about raising kids. They talk about education. And that has nothing… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
It's refreshing to have some time off from wondering whether I look fat. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
“Within a few hours of meeting him, I realized that "love at first sight" just means feeling immediately and extremely calm with someone.” — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
When I tell French parents that I know lots of American kids who will eat only pasta or only white rice, they can't believe… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
I was scared to say I was in my 40s because at that point, it sounded really old, and to out myself as a… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
The whole point of a commencement speech is to say something encouraging. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
My husband is so upset by President Trump's scapegoating of immigrants and Muslims, he refuses to even visit the United States. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
If you worry less about what people think of you, you can pick up an astonishing amount of information about them. You no longer… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
I guess we're all supposed to get used to living in a more dangerous world. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
One of the maddening things about being a foreigner in France is that hardly anyone in the rest of the world knows what's really… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
