Quote by Anna Quindlen
Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising chil

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them? – Anna Quindlen

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I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words. – Anna Quindlen

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People always blame the girl she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys cant manage it. – Anna Quindlen

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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

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