Children should have enough freedom to be themselves – once theyve learned the rules. – Anna Quindlen
Im sure not afraid of success and Ive learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing Im afraid of now is of being someone I dont like much. – Anna Quindlen
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me. – Anna Quindlen
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