Being Perfect
Anna Quindlen offers deep truths from her life to motivate and inspire you to become your most authentic self.
“Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion. . . . What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
In Being Perfect, Anna Quindlen shares wisdom that, perhaps without knowing it, you have longed to hear: about “the perfection trap,” the price you pay when you become ensnared in it, and the key to setting yourself free. Quindlen believes that when your success looks good to the world but doesn’t feel good in your heart, it…
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April 26, 2005Anna Quindlen is a novelist and journalist whose work has appeared on fiction, nonfiction, and self-help bestseller lists. She is the author of many novels: Object Lessons, One True Thing, Black and Blue, Blessings, Rise and Shine, Every Last One, Still Life with Bread Crumbs, and Miller’s Valley. Her memoir Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, published in 2012, was a #1 New York Times bestseller. Her book A Short Guide to a Happy Life has sold more than a million copies. While a columnist at The New York Times she won the Pulitzer Prize and published two collections, Living Out Loud and Thinking Out Loud. Her Newsweek columns were collected in Loud and Clear.
After Annie
Anna Quindlen
Write for Your Life
Anna Quindlen
Nanaville
Anna Quindlen
Alternate Side
Anna Quindlen
Miller's Valley
Anna Quindlen
The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton with an Introduction by Anna Quindlen and an Afterword by Michael Gorra
Still Life with Bread Crumbs
Anna Quindlen
Stuck in the Middle with You
Jennifer Finney Boylan
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
Anna Quindlen
Then Again
Diane Keaton
Every Last One
Anna Quindlen
A Truth Universally Acknowledged
Edited by Susannah Carson
Black and Blue
Anna Quindlen