All Anna Quindlen Quotes
- We don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty is American. Ambivalence
- Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us. It is a whisper in the world and a clamor within.… Among
- I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person. Comfortable
- When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around. Children
- We are writers. We danced with words, as children, in what became familiar patterns. The words became our friends and our companions, and without even… Aloud
- Jason Oliver C. Smith, a big dumb guy who was tan, died March 30 of lung cancer and old age. He was 13 years old… Adults
- Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within it, at that… All
- It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the pale new… Avenue
- All the things we don’t say, all the words we swallow, and it makes nothing but trouble. All
- The dark aftermath of the frontier, of the vast promise of possibility this country first offered, is an inflated sense of American entitlement today. We… Aftermath
- Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconveniently… Advice
- My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room, and I realized that out of a sea of infinite… Born
- Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life in which you… Attention
- After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight… All
- The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. Amazing
- I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out… Along
- All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child. All
- I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough… Bookshelves
- Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the… Beginnings
- There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than… Both