Anna Quindlen quotes - page 2

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)
The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous. View quote
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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. View quote
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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 tired of hearing about us, you should try being one of us. View quote
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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 and special, too. View quote
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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 one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties? View quote
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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. View quote
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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 time, the meat. View quote
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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 Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever. View quote
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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 female. View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books. View quote
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People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage to their servile and salivating roots own dogs. View quote
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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. View quote
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Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them. View quote
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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 being a woman consists of picking up garbage. View quote
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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 moved forward. But many minds did not. View quote
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The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools. View quote
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If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be inexpensive, too. View quote
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Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. (Anna Quindlen)
Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first. View quote
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It is so easty to waste our lives our days, our hours, our minutes...It is so easy to exist instead of live. View quote
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Speech is the voice of the heart. View quote
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The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have. View quote
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