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 QuindlenThe thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Anna QuindlenYour children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.
Anna QuindlenYou teach your 16-year-old with your heart in your mouth to be a good driver and none of that makes any difference when some drunk comes around a corner and runs a stop sign.
Anna QuindlenI haven't seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When members of the arts community were askedthis week about one of their biggest benefactors, Philip Morris, and its requests that they lobby the New York City Council on the company's behalf, the pas de deux of self- justification was so painstakingly choreographed that it constituted a performance all by itself.
Anna Quindlen