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Anna Quindlen Quotes
A finished person is a boring person. - Anna Quindlen Quotes
A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement. - Anna Quindlen Quotes
All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough. - Anna Quindlen Quotes
All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child. - Anna Quindlen Quotes
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 security. - Anna Quindlen Quotes
But its important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated. - Anna Quindlen Quotes
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. - Anna Quindlen Quotes
Dont ever confuse the two, your life and your work. Thats what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first. - Anna Quindlen Quotes
Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them? - Anna Quindlen Quotes
Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you. - Anna Quindlen Quotes
I came to the realization that there were certain public issues that were most usefully dealt with within some sort of framework of at least my private beliefs, if not my private life. - Anna Quindlen Quotes
I cant think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society. - Anna Quindlen Quotes
I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person. - Anna Quindlen Quotes
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me. - Anna Quindlen Quotes
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 to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display. - Anna Quindlen Quotes
I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. - Anna Quindlen Quotes
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 history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy. - Anna Quindlen Quotes
I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words. - Anna Quindlen Quotes
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. - Anna Quindlen Quotes
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. - Anna Quindlen Quotes
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 president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat. - Anna Quindlen Quotes
Im sure not afraid of success and Ive learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing Im afraid of now is of being someone I dont like much. - Anna Quindlen Quotes
Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around. - Anna Quindlen Quotes
Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and dont discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, its stupid. Banning books shows you dont trust your kids to think and you dont trust yourself to be able to talk to them. - Anna Quindlen Quotes
If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldnt have invented The New York Review of Books. - Anna Quindlen Quotes
If God is watching us, as some believers suggest, as though we were a television show and God had a lot of free time, the deity would surely be bemused by how dumbed-down devotion has sometimes become in this so-called modern era. How might an omnipotent being with the long view of history respond to those who visit the traveling exhibit of a grilled-cheese sandwich, sold on eBay, that is said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary? It certainly argues against intelligent design, or at least intelligent design in humans. - Anna Quindlen Quotes
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. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children. - Anna Quindlen Quotes
If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail. - Anna Quindlen Quotes
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all. - Anna Quindlen Quotes
Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed. - Anna Quindlen Quotes
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