part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition.
Anna QuindlenYour children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.
Anna QuindlenI think there was a long period of time when we got real invested in a youth culture, and not coincidentally it was when the baby boomers, who let's face it, take up a lot of space on the planet, were young.
Anna Quindlen