Quotes by Anna Quindlen

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.

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?

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.