All Anna Quindlen Quotes
- I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen.… Friend
- I don't know what I would do in the world without [female friends] for advice, for comfort, for simply knowing that there is someone out… Advice
- You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind,… Account
- When men do the dishes, it's called helping. When women do the dishes, it is called life. Called
- A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement. Better
- People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently. Block
- When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of… Actress
- Ask any woman how she makes it through the day, and she may mention her calendar, her to-do lists, her babysitter. But if you push… Any
- Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. Bookshelves
- I was doing the family grocery shopping accompanied by two children, an event I hope to see included in the Olympics in the near future. Accompanied
- The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them. No one does the right thing out of fear. If you ever utter the… Always Done
- Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts. Bigotry
- It often seems, looking back, that the unexpected comes to define us, the paths we didn't see coming and may have wandered down by mistake.… Coming
- Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why… Candle
- The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided ever more reasons for its spiritual solace. Emails are letters, after all,… Age
- 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