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World Quotes by Anna Quindlen

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Anna Quindlen writes about how trying to be perfect can feel inevitable for smart, ambitious people, and she also talks about wearing gender proudly while thinking out loud. She shares personal moments that changed her life, like losing her mother and leaving a big newspaper to raise a family. Her words show how we can define success on our own terms.

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Women are the glue that holds our day-to-day world together.

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We are awash in the revealed world.

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In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.

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Reading is another thing that has made me more human by exposing me to worlds I might never have entered and people…

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When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of…

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I've been a feminist since I was a teenager, but originally it was because I wanted to make the world a better…

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the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of…

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A writer is always working with whatever she's managed to store in the brainpan or puzzle out about the world.

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Over the last twenty years, we've changed the world just enough to make it radically different, but not enough to make it…

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Keeping kids safe is sometimes a delusion. The world is a perilous place. Sometimes the kitchen is a perilous place.

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I always wanted to be a fiction writer, but I couldn't figure out how you could be a novelist and make any…

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There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not…

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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.…

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There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more…

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These are my words; this is their world, a world in which we can wear our gender on our sleeves, unabashedly, as…

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[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their…

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Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good…

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In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds but into my own. I learned who I was and who I…

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When you look at the women that have made a real difference in the world throughout history, what they’ve done has almost…

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The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific…

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I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that,…

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The Cairo conferenceis about a complicated web of education and employment, consumption and poverty, development and health care. It is also about…

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Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and…

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Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to…

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Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us. It is a whisper in the world and…

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How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and…

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I think at every moment in the last probably 100 years, when the institutional church had the opportunity to do the right…

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I don't know what I would do in the world without [female friends] for advice, for comfort, for simply knowing that there…

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I think Americans suspect, without even being able to articulate it, that we're at the end of the American century; that we're…

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The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific…

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If you want to write what the world is about, you have to write details...real life is in the dishes. Real life…

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WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE WOMEN THAT HAVE MADE A REAL DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD THROUGHOUT HISTORY, WHAT THEY’VE DONE HAS ALMOST…

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On social welfare the Church does so much good around the world - nuns running schools and homeless shelters, priests ministering to…

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I don't understand how people learn to live in the world if they haven't had siblings. Everything I learned about negotiation, territoriality,…

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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…

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“The ultimate act of bravery does not take place on a battlefield. It takes place in your heart, when you have the…

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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…

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Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried…

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[I]n contrast to the common belief that they are the world's greatest cynics, the best journalists are the world's great idealists. They…

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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,…

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Sometimes change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar that rose…

Loss as muse. Loss as character. Loss as life.

knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us.

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…

Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within it, at…

“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…

A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.

“In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been madamed once,…

“Yet there was always in me, even when I was very small, the sense that I ought to be somewhere else. And wander I…

I can't think of a single downside to motherhood now.

It would take a helluva man to replace no man at all.

Not writing at all leads to nothing.

Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours pleasant to…