It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
Anna QuindlenIt's odd when I think of the arc of my life, from child to young woman to aging adult. First I was who I was. Then I didn't know who I was. Then I invented someone and became her. Then I began to like what I invented. And finally I was what I was again..."Anna Quindlen
Anna QuindlenTag: inspirational life-lessons
I’ve finally recognized my body for what it is: a personality-delivery system, designed expressly to carry my character from place to place, now and in the years to come.
Anna QuindlenTag: haven-t-read-it just-read-and-liked-the-quote
there is still a kind of unique loneliness to child rearing for women. We so often do it in isolation. Add to the fact that in our competitive, perfectionist culture, in which the price woman are required to pay for freedom still seems to be martyrdom, almost everyone lies about motherhood. Part of that lying is loyalty - I can't let on that my kid is the only one on the playground who can't read or play the piano - and part of it is self-protection, since we've made hyper-motherhood a measure of female success. The preferred answer to the question "How are you?" is always "Fine," and the answer to the question "How are the kids?" is supposed to be "Great!" That's true even if the accurate answers would be "terrible" and "a mess." I think it produces its own kind of desperation, especially for women, who yearn to be emotionally open.
Anna QuindlenTag: motherhood
A loose end - that's what we woman call it, when we are overwhelmed by the care of small children, the weight of small tasks, a life in which we fall into bed at the end of the day exhausted from being all things to all people.
Anna QuindlenTag: motherhood
it is the only time I can rest without sleeping, think without deciding, speak and hear my own voice. It is the only time I can be alone. Slightly less than an hour each weekday when no one makes demands.
Anna QuindlenTag: time
reading has as many functions as the human body, and... not all of them are cerebral.
Anna Quindlenthe older we get, the more we understand that the women who know and love us - and love us despite what they know about us - are the joists that hold up the house of our existence.
Anna QuindlenAll of reading is really only finding ways to name ourselves, and, perhaps, to name the others around us so that they will no longer seem like strangers.
Anna QuindlenI did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning. I read because I loved it more than any other activity on earth.
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