Anna Quindlen

A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.

A finished person is a boring person.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

Women are the glue that hold our day-to-day world together.
Anna Quindlen - O Magazine, May 2003
The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.
Anna Quindlen - A Short Guide to a Happy Life
You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

- Anna Quindlen