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One Quotes by Anna Quindlen
- There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes…
- It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for their daughters, and…
- Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.
- Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.
- The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other…
- In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a…
- You want to have fun with your kids, and no one has fun with someone who runs roughshod.
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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,…
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle