Established Essential

Famous quotes containing the words established and/or essential:

“To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“Being so wrong about her makes me wonder now how often I am utterly wrong about myself. And how wrong she might have been about her mother, how wrong he might have been about his father, how much of family life is a vast web of misunderstandings, a tinted and touched-up family portrait, an accurate representation of fact that leaves out only the essential truth.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)