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title: "26 Mother Quotes By Anna Quindlen"
description: "26 Mother quotes by Anna Quindlen. Plus more from Anna Quindlen and more Mother sayings from other authors."
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> [Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/figuring-out-who-you-are-is-the-whole-point-of-the-human-experience/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

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> [I can't think of a single downside to motherhood now.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/i-can-t-think-of-a-single-downside-to-motherhood-now/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

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> [My mother was an incredibly loving mother.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/my-mother-was-an-incredibly-loving-mother/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

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> [I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/i-would-be-the-most-content-if-my-children-grew-up-to-be-the-kind-of/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

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> [“My husband and I have together created three children, but we have separate finances, and that’s the way I like it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/my-husband-and-i-have-together-created-three-children-but-we-have/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

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> [When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/when-an-actress-takes-off-her-clothes-onscreen-but-a-nursing-mother/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

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> [Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/here-is-the-real-domino-theory-gay-man-to-gay-man-bisexual-man-to/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

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> [The women of my mother's generation had, in the main, only one decision to make about their lives: who they would marry.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/the-women-of-my-mother-s-generation-had-in-the-main-only-one-decision/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

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> [ The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit \[how difficult mothering is\] quietly to each other, over… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/the-great-motherhood-friendships-are-the-ones-in-which-two-women-can/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

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> [Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/recently-a-young-mother-asked-for-advice-what-she-wanted-to-know-was/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

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> [I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/i-realized-that-while-i-would-never-be-my-mother-nor-have-her-life/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

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> [People ask me all the time if I'm from a family of writers. The literal short answer is no, but my father…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/people-ask-me-all-the-time-if-i-m-from-a-family-of-writers-the/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

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> [The reason child care is such a loaded issue is that when we talk about it, we are always tacitly talking about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/the-reason-child-care-is-such-a-loaded-issue-is-that-when-we-talk/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

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> [I think a lot of people, but particularly a lot of women, get to this stage when I'd say they're over 50.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/i-think-a-lot-of-people-but-particularly-a-lot-of-women-get-to-this/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

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> [I'm boggled by the idea of being an only child. I know nothing at all (I'm happy to say) about having had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/i-m-boggled-by-the-idea-of-being-an-only-child-i-know-nothing-at-all/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

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> [I think the gift of my mother's death, if anything so terrible can be said to have an upside to it, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/i-think-the-gift-of-my-mother-s-death-if-anything-so-terrible-can-be/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

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> [Having children can smooth the relationship, too. Mother and daughter are now equals. That is hard to imagine, even harder to accept,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/having-children-can-smooth-the-relationship-too-mother-and-daughter/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

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> [ \[After my mother died, I had a feeling that was\] not unlike the homesickness that always filled me for the first few… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/after-my-mother-died-i-had-a-feeling-that-was-not-unlike-the/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

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> [“there is still a kind of unique loneliness to child rearing for women. We so often do it in isolation. Add to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/there-is-still-a-kind-of-unique-loneliness-to-child-rearing-for-women/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

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> [ “As I looked at \[my future husband\] I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/as-i-looked-at-my-future-husband-i-realized-that-while-i-would-never/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

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> [When I quit The New York Times to be a fulltime mother, the voices of the world said I was nuts…But if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/when-i-quit-the-new-york-times-to-be-a-fulltime-mother-the-voices-of/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

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> [I like to say that my mother had a very ordinary life. From the outside it didn't look like there was anything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/i-like-to-say-that-my-mother-had-a-very-ordinary-life-from-the/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

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> [If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/if-i-get-the-forty-additional-years-statisticians-say-are-likely/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

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> [I think what saved me, as a writer, is that there are really two breaking points in my life. One was when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/i-think-what-saved-me-as-a-writer-is-that-there-are-really-two/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

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> [What had I expected of the first child? Everything. Rocket scientist. Neurosurgeon. Designated hitter. We talked wisely at cocktail parties about the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/what-had-i-expected-of-the-first-child-everything-rocket-scientist/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

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> [“My mother spoke, alive again inside my brain...She spoke and I listened to her, because I was afraid if I didn't her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/my-mother-spoke-alive-again-inside-my-brain-she-spoke-and-i-listened/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

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## More by Anna Quindlen

> [I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/i-think-books-in-which-people-are-really-happy-and-things-are-going/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

> [Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/trying-to-be-perfect-may-be-inevitable-for-people-who-are-smart-and/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

> [Sometimes change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar that rose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/sometimes-change-came-all-at-once-with-a-sound-like-a-fire-taking/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

> [Loss as muse. Loss as character. Loss as life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/loss-as-muse-loss-as-character-loss-as-life/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

> [knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/knowledge-of-our-own-mortality-is-the-greatest-gift-god-ever-gives-us/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

> [You teach your 16-year-old with your heart in your mouth to be a good driver and none of that makes any difference when some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/you-teach-your-16-year-old-with-your-heart-in-your-mouth-to-be-a-good/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

> [Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within it, at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/every-reader-i-suspect-has-a-book-like-this-somewhere-in-his-or-her/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

> [“I’ve finally recognized my body for what it is: a personality-delivery system, designed expressly to carry my character from place to place, now and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/i-ve-finally-recognized-my-body-for-what-it-is-a-personality-delivery/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

> [A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/a-man-who-builds-his-own-pedestal-had-better-use-strong-cement/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

> [“In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been madamed once,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/in-england-i-am-always-madam-i-arrived-too-late-to-ever-be-a-miss-in/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

> [“Yet there was always in me, even when I was very small, the sense that I ought to be somewhere else. And wander I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/yet-there-was-always-in-me-even-when-i-was-very-small-the-sense-that/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

> [I can't think of a single downside to motherhood now.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/i-can-t-think-of-a-single-downside-to-motherhood-now/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

> [It would take a helluva man to replace no man at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/it-would-take-a-helluva-man-to-replace-no-man-at-all/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

> [Not writing at all leads to nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/not-writing-at-all-leads-to-nothing/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

> [Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours pleasant to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/reading-has-always-been-my-home-my-sustenance-my-great-invincible/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

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