All Anna Quindlen Quotes
- 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
- She say guilt is a useless emotion." "Oh, please," says Nancy. "Guilt is what separates humans from animals. Animal
- [In the aftermath of death] Small talk feels too small, big talk too enormous. Aftermath
- Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones. Children
- I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility. Cat
- There's something undeniable about the posture of a person trying not to acknowledge your existance Acknowledge
- In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be,… Aspire
- It's only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions. Delusion
- Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia, racism, sexism, terrorism,… All
- Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning. Die
- Maybe crazy is just the word we use for feelings that will not be contained. Contained