Anna Marie Quindlen (born July 8, 1952) is an American author, journalist, and opinion columnist. (wikipedia)
So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness.
Now, a lot of people are challenged by the fact that a record number of people in their sixties have living parents, and a record number of people in their sixties have kids who may still depend upon them.
Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around, and nearly every book represents what my son's third grade teacher refers to as a "teachable moment.
It makes me angry to think that . . . female sanitation workers will spend their days doing a job most of their co-workers think they can't handle, and then they will go home and do another job most of their co-workers don't want.
When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around.
As I said, I had this fabulous college education. At college I met the man to whom I've been married for 34 years and who is the father of those three kids. I seriously considered going to another college, and my life would have been completely different in every way.
I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.
I believe that in a contest between the living and the almost living, the latter must, if necessary, give way to the will of the former.
Guilt is what separates humans from animals.
The purse is the mirror of the soul.