126 Quotes by Pamela Druckerman

Although I wrote a book about infidelity around the world, I ended up concluding that fidelity is quite a good idea.

French schools follow a national curriculum that includes arduous surveys of French philosophy and literature. Frenchmen then spend the rest of their lives quoting Proust to one another, with hardly anyone else catching the references.

The question on my husband's birthday is always, What do you get for the man who has nothing?

Usually, I'm so self-absorbed that my companion could be bleeding to death, and I might not notice.

Babies aren't savages. Toddlers understand language long before they can talk.

Remember that the problem with hyper-parenting isn't that it's bad for children; it's that it's bad for parents.

Just as dressing well in your forties entails making choices that reflect who you are and not just wearing generic basics, looking good as you get older requires accentuating and enjoying what's specific to you rather than striving for cookie-cutter perfection.

Your child probably won't get into the Ivy League or win a sports scholarship. At age 24, he might be back in his childhood bedroom, in debt, after a mediocre college career. Raise him so that, if that happens, it will still have been worth it.

When you're further along in your career, you probably have more money and more means; you have to stop yourself from giving your child too much. Whereas, if you're in twenties, you might just get by.