All Anna Quindlen Quotes
- When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be… Alive
- Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle… Anna
- Down time is where we become ourselves... a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel… Boredom
- I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box. Adolescence
- Today is the only guarantee you get. Guarantee
- Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and the everyday. If… Along
- This is why I had children: to offer them a perfect dream of childhood that can fill their souls as they grow older. Childhood
- Familiarity breeds content. Breeds
- These are my words; this is their world, a world in which we can wear our gender on our sleeves, unabashedly, as we go about… Business
- Women are the glue that holds our day-to-day world together. Day
- Get a life. A real life. Not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house. Bigger
- So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness. Bedrock
- We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind. Bed
- So carry your courage in an easily accessible place, the way you do your cellphone or your wallet. You may still falter or fail, but… Accessible
- I only really understand myself, what I'm really thinking and feelings, when I've talked it over with my circle of female friends. When days go… Circle
- Look around at the azaleas making fuchsia star bursts in spring; look at a full moon hanging silver in a black sky on a cold… Azaleas
- Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on the stoop and… Actor
- A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a life. Carefree
- Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description. Description
- WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE WOMEN THAT HAVE MADE A REAL DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD THROUGHOUT HISTORY, WHAT THEY’VE DONE HAS ALMOST ALWAYS BEEN DEFINED… Almost Always