Ann Landers
Ann Landers
Ann Landers was a pen name created by Chicago Sun-Times advice columnist Ruth Crowley in 1943 and taken over by Esther Pauline "Eppie" Lederer in 1955. For 56 years, the Ask Ann Landers syndicated advice column was a regular feature in many newspapers across North America. Due to this popularity, "Ann Landers," though fictional, became something of a national institution and cultural icon...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 July 1918
CitySioux City, IA
CountryUnited States of America
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness -a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.
It is far better to be alone than to wish you were
What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.
There are really only three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, ""What happened?
Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand on conversation ...
We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.
A successful marriage is not a gift; it is an achievement.
The adult who is constantly changing friends and changing mates is immature. He/she cannot stick it out because he/she has not grown up.