The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous. —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Tags: parents Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About Anna Quindlen Anna Marie Quindlen (born July 8, 1952) is an American author, journalist, and opinion columnist.
More quotations from Anna Quindlen Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry? —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Tags: God Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax! —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Tags: God Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society. —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Tags: family Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy. —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Tags: exercise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Tags: children Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry? —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Tags: God Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax! —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Tags: God Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society. —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Tags: family Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy. —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Tags: exercise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Tags: children Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “parents” How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names. —Alice Walker More about this quote Tags: parents Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I got my first full-time job, but it's weird. I could swear I was making more money in college, working for my parents as their daughter. —Melanie Reno More about this quote Tags: parents money work college Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email We are the people our parents warned us about. —Jimmy Buffett More about this quote Tags: people parents Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children. —Nancy Friday More about this quote Tags: gratitude children parents debt Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly. —P. J. O'Rourke More about this quote Tags: parents discipline Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names. —Alice Walker More about this quote Tags: parents Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I got my first full-time job, but it's weird. I could swear I was making more money in college, working for my parents as their daughter. —Melanie Reno More about this quote Tags: parents money work college Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are the people our parents warned us about. —Jimmy Buffett More about this quote Tags: people parents Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children. —Nancy Friday More about this quote Tags: gratitude children parents debt Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly. —P. J. O'Rourke More about this quote Tags: parents discipline Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email