The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. -Anna Quindlen

 

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.


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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

Anna Quindlen

The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you.

Anna Quindlen

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

There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word 'banal' sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say 'underedited,' I say 'derivative.' The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews.

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