Every Last One
Anna Quindlen
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.”
“Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.”
“Maybe crazy is just the word we use for feelings that will not be contained.”
“It's only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions.”
“There's something undeniable about the posture of a person trying not to acknowledge your existance”
“In the aftermath of death Small talk feels too small, big talk too enormous.”
“This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver's seat and keeping quiet.”
“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.”
“We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.”
“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.”
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Book Keywords:
motherhood, death, mourning, anna-quindlen
