All Anna Quindlen Quotes
- Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could… Almost Went
- We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success. Female
- Consider the lilies of the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby's ear. Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn… Baby
- Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character,… Acts
- Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with… Age
- London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always… All
- Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people just like me. Austen
- There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too. Boy
- I had that feeling you have when you're watching a sad movie, sobbing at the heartbreak you are feeling at the same time that you… Came
- London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to… Chapters
- Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word have given them… Behind
- [After my mother died, I had a feeling that was] not unlike the homesickness that always filled me for the first few days when I… All
- When I quit The New York Times to be a fulltime mother, the voices of the world said I was nuts....But if success is not… All
- Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first. Confuse
- Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come… Addiction
- I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. Bookshelves
- 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… Act
- What's really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. Amazing
- I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in… Agree
- "You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind,… Account
- His [O.J. Simpson's] supporters lined the freeway to cheer him on Friday and commentators talked about his tragedy. Did those people see the photographs of… Battered