Parenting Quotes by Anna Quindlen
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Motherhood feels like a gift, with no downside in the eyes of the writer. She points out that parents shape how kids see others, even when they mock or curse. She also notes how tricky it can be to guide a strong‑willed, outspoken child.
![“[B]oth my husband and I are the eldest in largish families and both of us had childhoods punctuated by pregnancies, the weeklong disappearance of our mothers, and the arrival of yet another lozenge of a receiving blanket with a red face and a querulous cry. But being supplanted by babies was quite…” quote by Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ffd/anna-quindlen-467_childhood_b-oth-my-husband-and-i-are-the-eldest-in_1137585.png)
![“The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make. … I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the…” quote by Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/237/anna-quindlen-467_biggest-mistake_the-biggest-mistake-i-made-as-a-parent-i_2065053.jpg)
![“[After my mother died, I had a feeling that was] not unlike the homesickness that always filled me for the first few days when I went to stay at my grandparents'' house, and even, I was stunned to discover, during the first few months of my freshman year at college. It was not really the home my…” quote by Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab8/anna-quindlen-467_children_after-my-mother-died-i-had-a-feeling-tha_2710339.jpg)
![“The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea at a table sticky with spilled apple juice and littered with markers without tops.” quote by Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/205/anna-quindlen-467_apples_the-great-motherhood-friendships-are-the_1032177.png)
