All Anna Quindlen Quotes
- 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… 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… Afraid
- 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… Destination
- The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and tortuous. Blindsided
- 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… Aging
- 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… Acquire
- All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough. All
- If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it. God
- 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… Afloat
- Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience. Daughter
- Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die. Board
- 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… Compromise
- 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,… Approach
- ... 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,… Confusion
- 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… All
- 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… Adults
- Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules. Children
- 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… Aligned
- 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… Appearance
- Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us. Few
- When I'm falling, my girlfriends are my soft landing. Fall
- It is so easy to waste our lives: Our days, our hours, our minutes ... it is so easy to exist instead of live. Days
- The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed, Compressed
- The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of the last century… American
- I got a fortune cookie that said, "To remember is to understand." I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like… Advice