All Anna Quindlen Quotes
- The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with. American
- You want to have fun with your kids, and no one has fun with someone who runs roughshod. Fun
- But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves.… From
- I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female… Bible
- The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved. Law, institutions, corporations… Changed
- If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes.… Additional
- There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a… Beauty
- America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and… America
- And I don't have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It's almost as if I absorbed completely… Absorb
- I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible… Care
- New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of… Bit
- Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules… Beginning
- Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you're… All
- The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private… Bar
- There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing… Emergencies
- Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. Book
- I wondered why I hadn't loved that day more, why I hadn't savored every bit of it...why I hadn't known how good it was to… Any
- When you really want to say no, say no. You can't do everything - or at least not well. Habit
- I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child, it's time for… Another Parent
- the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others. All
- 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