All Anna Quindlen Quotes
- The beginning and the end are never really the journey of discovery for me. It is the middle that remains a puzzle until well into… Beginning
- Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is really… Amazing
- In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. Book
- While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who… Aimless
- Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours pleasant to you… All
- those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers... Bookstores
- How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and Prejudice and find… Amuses
- Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat. Ever Forget
- But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on. Busy
- A week in the hospital she had told us. A hysterectomy, she had said. It had seemed unremarkable to me in a woman of forty-six… Any
- Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful if they came… Busy
- You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are. All
- The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have. Aspiration
- There's some muscle group around your shoulders that seizes up during the perfection dance and doesn't let go until you are asleep, or alone. Or… All
- Speech is the voice of the heart. Heart
- All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading. All
- The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea… Admit
- All of life like a series of tableaux, and in the living we missed so much, hid so much, left so much undone and unsaid. All
- And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that. Bad
- This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver's seat and keeping quiet. Children