Anna Quindlen Quotes


New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage which makes sense to me since as Ive discovered a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage. Anna Quindlen New york city 100
In books I have traveled not only to other worlds but into my own. Anna Quindlen Travel 89
In England I am always madam I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been madamed once by the doorman at the Carlyle Hotel. Anna Quindlen New york city 87
In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat. Anna Quindlen Family 84
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. Anna Quindlen Books 83
There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one and you always choose yourself and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat. Anna Quindlen Parents 83
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. Anna Quindlen design 81
I have a cat the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility. Anna Quindlen Cat 77
There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger. Anna Quindlen Control 76
The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties? Anna Quindlen Bar 73
Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle. Anna Quindlen Beginnings 72
The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with. Anna Quindlen Health 71
Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it. Anna Quindlen Readers 70
Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed. Anna Quindlen Against 70
I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words. Anna Quindlen Filthy 69
But never fear gentlemen castration was really not the point of feminism and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on. Anna Quindlen Feminism 68
You want to have fun with your kids, and no one has fun with someone who runs roughshod. Anna Quindlen Fun 68
Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number. Anna Quindlen Wedding 64
There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever. Anna Quindlen Beauty 62
The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit how difficult mothering is quietly to each other over cups of tea at a table sticky with spilled apple juice and littered with markers without tops. Anna Quindlen Motherhood 54
Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you. Anna Quindlen Addict 48
The things that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. Anna Quindlen Uncategorized 48
the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others. Anna Quindlen Reading 47
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me. Anna Quindlen Change 47
London opens to you like a novel itself. ... It is divided into chapters the chapters into scenes the scenes into sentences it opens to you like a series of rooms door passsage door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand. Anna Quindlen Cities 46
I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. Anna Quindlen Uncategorized 45
A finished person is a boring person. Anna Quindlen Boring 41
Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die It happens again every single morning. Anna Quindlen Mourning 41
The essential London scenes is a row of low identical houses set around a square. Anna Quindlen Cities 39
Your children make it impossible to regret your past. Theyre its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones. Anna Quindlen Children 39
I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much. Anna Quindlen Success 39
People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it. Anna Quindlen Wisdom 37
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. Anna Quindlen Work 36
One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity. Anna Quindlen Conformity 36
I am an affirmative action hire. Anna Quindlen Action 36
I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat. Anna Quindlen Being 34
You can tell a really wonderful quote by the fact that its attributed to a whole raft of wits. Anna Quindlen Quotes 31
Speech is the voice of the heart. Anna Quindlen Speech 30
When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around. Anna Quindlen Children 30
I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display. Anna Quindlen Care 30
If your success is not on your own terms if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart it is not success at all. Anna Quindlen Success 28
Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them. Anna Quindlen Trust 23
If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children. Anna Quindlen Additional 23
The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female. Anna Quindlen Marriage 23

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