"This is why I had children: to offer……" — Anna Quindlen
"This is why I had children: to offer them a perfect dream of childhood that can fill their souls as they grow older."
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171 Quotes by Anna Quindlen
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The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we…
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I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid…
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I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehersal, and that…
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The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can…
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With reference to the younger generation..."If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not…
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People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to…
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All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never…
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If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it.
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There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your…
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Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.
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Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my…
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It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents…
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood…
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If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
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I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't…
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Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story,…
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It…
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Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and…
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Genius is childhood recalled at will.
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What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
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