Anna Quindlen - Children Quotes

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I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

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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?

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This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver's seat and keeping quiet.

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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.

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Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.

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Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die.

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Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it.

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It is hard to find someone who will give your children a feeling of security while it lasts and not wound them too much when it isfinished, who will treat those children as if they were her own, but knows--and never forgets--that they are yours.

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A friend and I flew south with our children. During the week we spent together I took off my shoes, let down my hair, took apart my psyche, cleaned the pieces, and put them together again in much improved condition. I feel like a car that's just had a tune-up. Only another woman could have acted as the mechanic.

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This is why I had children: to offer them a perfect dream of childhood that can fill their souls as they grow older.

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Maybe someday it will seem quaint that, during a time of plague, some of the parents of the 1990s wanted to deny their children protection so that they could safeguard their own self- image. Or maybe we'll just seem like a bunch of lunatics.

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