All Anna Quindlen Quotes
- 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
- 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