Anna Quindlen Quotes

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• The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them, allows for all…
• 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…
• I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehersal, and that today is the only guarantee…
• The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and tortuous.
• With reference to the younger generation..."If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not to go straight from the…
• People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage to their servile…
• All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.
• If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it.
• 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…
• Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.
• Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die.
• It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for their daughters, and…
• I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions and collide. Besides,…
• ... It was the idea of facing a future skimming the surface of life, winging my way in and out of other people's crises, confusions,…
• People who are knowledgeable about poetry sometimes discuss it in that knowing, rather hateful way in which oenophiles talk about wine: robust, delicate, muscular. This…
• I feel about exercise the same way that I feel about a few other things: that there is nothing wrong with it if it is…
• Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.
• Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried to cast gay…
• February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green shoots two months…
• Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us.

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