Anna Quindlen

"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."

"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."

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