Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I spent most of my adolescence feeling awkward but never once mentioned it. "
Pamela Druckerman
Never
Awkward
Feeling
Related Quotes:
" Here's some news you might find surprising: By and large, the French like Jews. "
Pamela Druckerman
Some
Find
Here
" 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. "
Pamela Druckerman
You
Child
Giving
" Even for natives, French satire is rarely laugh-out-loud funny. Its unspoken punch line is typically that things have gone irrevocably wrong, and the government is to blame. "
Pamela Druckerman
Wrong
Blame
Funny
" My husband is so upset by President Trump's scapegoating of immigrants and Muslims, he refuses to even visit the United States. "
Pamela Druckerman
President
Upset
Husband
" If you want to know how old you look, just walk into a French cafe. It's like a public referendum on your face. "
Pamela Druckerman
Face
Look
Want
" Being an immigrant mother can be hard, but being a poor immigrant mother is much harder. You don't generally get to sit in cafes polishing your French by reading 'Le Monde.' "
Pamela Druckerman
You
Poor
Immigrant
" A large part of the creative process is tolerating the gap between the glorious image you had in your mind and the sad thing you've just made. "
Pamela Druckerman
Sad
Image
Mind
" When you're the foreigner and your kids are the natives, they realize you're clueless much sooner than they ordinarily would. I'm pretty sure mine skipped the Mommy-is-infallible stage entirely. "
Pamela Druckerman
Pretty
You
Your
" One of the great joys of a creative life is that your observations and loose moments aren't lost forever; they live in your work. "
Pamela Druckerman
Great
Live
Creative
" Parisians won't admit that they go to the gym, let alone that they're scared of terrorists. "
Pamela Druckerman
Admit
Alone
Go
" If you had asked me what I wanted when I was 12 years old, I probably would have said, 'To marry a plastic surgeon.' You can hardly blame me: I was growing up in Miami. "
Pamela Druckerman
Said
You
Miami
" Before Donald Trump took office, optimism about his presidency was the lowest of any president-elect since at least the 1970s. "
Pamela Druckerman
Donald Trump
Office
Optimism
" I had applied to become French - or, rather, Franco-American, as I'm now a dual citizen - partly because I could: I'd lived and paid taxes here for long enough. "
Pamela Druckerman
Citizen
Enough
Long
" It's fine to discuss money in France, as long as you're complaining that you don't have enough, or boasting about getting a bargain. "
Pamela Druckerman
Long
You
Complaining
" In my 40s, I expect to finally reap the average-looking girl's revenge. I've entered the stage of life where you don't need to be beautiful; simply by being well-preserved and not obese, I would now pass for pretty. "
Pamela Druckerman
Beautiful
Girl
Life
" My family was once invited to lunch at a chateau owned by a friend of a friend. As we drove our rental car up to the giant castle, my kids gasped and said, 'They must be rich!' "
Pamela Druckerman
Rich
Car
Said
" When I left for college, I put Miami behind me and tried to have a life of the mind. I got a graduate degree. I traveled. I even married a fellow writer, whose only real estate was a dingy one-bedroom apartment in Paris, where we lived. "
Pamela Druckerman
Me
Mind
Real Estate
" I gradually understood why European mothers aren't in perpetual panic about their work-life balance and don't write books about how executive moms should just try harder: Their governments are helping them - and doing it competently. "
Pamela Druckerman
Why
Balance
Try
" We Anglophones have reasons for adopting strange diets. Increasingly, we live alone. We have an unprecedented choice of foods, and we're not sure what's in them or whether they're good for us. And we expect to customize practically everything: parenting, news, medicines, even our own faces. "
Pamela Druckerman
Choice
Live
Good
" Every time I pass a cafe, I imagine it being stormed by men with Kalashnikovs. "
Pamela Druckerman
Pass
Being
Cafe
" When my mother in Florida mentions that she's off to play golf, I think: Golf? In the age of Trump? "
Pamela Druckerman
Think
Age
Golf
" I was scared to say I was in my 40s because at that point, it sounded really old, and to out myself as a middle-aged human - I felt very awkward about it. "
Pamela Druckerman
Awkward
Say
Old
" I've never gotten a good idea while checking Twitter or shopping. "
Pamela Druckerman
Twitter
Good
Idea
" Earnestness makes British people gag. "
Pamela Druckerman
Gag
Makes
People
" This idea - that the only way to mend the relationship post-affair is through therapy - is unique to the American script. "
Pamela Druckerman
American
Way
Unique
" I think, in writing a memoir, you kind of give order to your life. "
Pamela Druckerman
You
Think
Writing
" When I moved to Europe 12 years ago, my biggest concern was whether I'd ever speak decent French. Practically every American I knew came to visit, many saying they dreamed of living here, too. "
Pamela Druckerman
Here
Speak
Saying
" It's refreshing to have some time off from wondering whether I look fat. "
Pamela Druckerman
Fat
Look
Some
" Where Americans might coo over a child's most inane remark to boost his confidence, middle-class French parents teach their kids to be concise and amusing, to keep everyone listening. "
Pamela Druckerman
Confidence
Parents
Listening
" We're understandably worried that staring at screens all day, and blogging about our breakfasts, is turning America into a nation of narcissists. But the opposite might be true. "
Pamela Druckerman
Our
True
America