Anna Quindlen Quotes About Parents

• Recibí una galleta de la fortuna que decía: "Recordar es comprender". Nunca lo he olvidado. Un buen juez recuerda lo que era ser abogado. Un buen editor recuerda lo que fue ser escritor. Un buen padre recuerda lo que fue ser niño.

  Anna Quindlen

  Vida, Niños, Editores

• ser padre no es una transacción... no recibimos lo que damos. Es lo último en pagar por lo que damos: somos buenos padres no para que nos quieran lo suficiente como para quedarse con nosotros, sino para que sean lo suficientemente fuertes como para dejarnos.

  Anna Quindlen

  Fuerte, Dar, Padre

• Todos los padres deberían ser conscientes de que cuando se burlan o maldicen a los homosexuales, pueden estar burlándose o maldiciendo a su propio hijo.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Gay, People

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.29, Ballantine Books

• Raising children is a spur-of-the-moment, seat-of-the-pants sort of deal, as any parent knows, particularly after an adult child says that his most searing memory consists of an offhand comment in the car on the way to second grade that the parent cannot even dimly recall.

  Anna Quindlen

  Memories, Children, Car

• There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.

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  Parent, Literature, Rooms

  Anna Quindlen (2003). "Lecciones objetivas: One True Thing; Black and Blue"

• It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for their daughters, and their sons, too. It's the way we talk about and treat one another. It's who makes the money and who makes the compromises and who makes dinner. It's a state of mind. It's the way we live now.

  Anna Quindlen

  Inspiración, Motivación, Hija

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.123, Random House

• Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and the everyday. If being a parent consists often of passing along chunks of ourselves to unwitting-often unwilling-recipients, then books are, for me, one of the simplest and most sure-fire ways of doing that.

  Anna Quindlen

  Reading, Book, Fire

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.114, Ballantine Books

• I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child, it's time for a zone defense instead of man-to-man.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Men, Hands

• When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around.

  Anna Quindlen

  Running, Children, Parent

• La adolescencia es una época difícil tanto para los padres como para los hijos. Es una etapa intermedia: entre la infancia y la madurez, entre la protección de los padres y la responsabilidad personal, entre la vida gestionada por los adultos y la vida privada.

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  Niños, Responsabilidad, Madurez

  Anna Quindlen (2010). "Pensar en voz alta: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private", p.53, Ballantine Books

• And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.

  Anna Quindlen

  Niños, Pensar, Padres

• Some of the most important lessons I've learned have been from stumbling, and I am deeply grateful that my parents allowed me to fight my own battles.

  Anna Quindlen

  Grateful, Fighting, Parent

  Fuente: www.goodreads.com

• 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.

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  Kids, Numbers, People

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

• Parents have railed against shelters near schools, but no one has made any connection between the crazed consumerism of our kids and their elders' cold unconcern toward others. Maybe the homeless are not the only ones who need to spend time in these places to thaw out.

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  Escuela, Niños, Padres

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.37, Ballantine Books

• Kids and violent TV, violent TV and violence, violence and kids. The only people missing from this discussion are the parents. Where are we? Gone. Abdicated.

  Anna Quindlen

  Niños, Personas, Padres

• Los jóvenes matan a alguien por un puñado de monedas, luego se muestran despiadados, incluso despreocupados: oye, tío, cosas que pasan. Y sus padres atrapan al culpable: fue la ciudad, la policía, el sistema, la multitud, la música. Cualquiera menos él. Cualquiera menos yo.

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  Responsabilidad, Hombres, Ciudades

  Anna Quindlen (2010). "Pensar en voz alta: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private", p.81, Ballantine Books

• Maybe someday it will seem quaint that, during a time of plague, some of the parents of the 1990s wanted to deny their children protection so that they could safeguard their own self- image. Or maybe we'll just seem like a bunch of lunatics.

  Anna Quindlen

  Hijos, Yo, Padres

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