Quote of the Day

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

– Anna Quindlen

Anna Quindlen was only the third woman to become an Op-Ed writer for the New York Times. She was born in 1952 near Philadelphia. As a columnist, she blended the personal with the political, drawing parallels between the two. She left the Times to write fiction. Her novel, One True Thing, became a film starring Meryl Streep. She is the first writer with books on the fiction, nonfic tion, and self-help New York Times bestseller lists. She lives with her husband and children in New York.