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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Children should have enough freedom to be themselves – once theyve learned the rules. – Anna Quindlen

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In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat. – Anna Quindlen

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If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children. – Anna Quindlen

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Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven. – James Hastings

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I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldnt call it fear, but its an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. Im able to do that. – Mary Tyler Moore

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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. – C. S. Lewis

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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall. – Salman Rushdie

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