"When you really want to say no, say……" — Anna Quindlen
"When you really want to say no, say no. You can't do everything - or at least not well."
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171 Quotes by Anna Quindlen
Anna Quindlen has 171 quotes on this site.
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The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we…
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I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid…
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I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehersal, and that…
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The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can…
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With reference to the younger generation..."If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not…
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People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to…
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All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never…
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If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it.
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There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your…
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Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.
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Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my…
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It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents…
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the…
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We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also…
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I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime…
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