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Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

Book by Anna Quindlen · 3 quotes · Parent, People, Children

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“I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.”

“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.”