Anna Quindlen Quotes

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.
Anna Quindlen

Good, Women, Opinion

I am an affirmative action hire.
Anna Quindlen

I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.
Anna Quindlen

Person, Wanted, Once

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

Freedom, Words, Understand

I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.
Anna Quindlen

Success, Failure, Someone

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.
Anna Quindlen

God, She, Books

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

Ten, Mail, Elude

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.
Anna Quindlen

Family, Time, Another

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.
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Health, Women, Men

When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around.
Anna Quindlen

Children, Parents, Small

You want to have fun with your kids, and no one has fun with someone who runs roughshod.
Anna Quindlen

Fun, Someone, Kids

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.
Anna Quindlen

Forward, Revolution, Law

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.
Anna Quindlen

Beauty, Poetry, Joy

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

Human, Country, Two

And I don't have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It's almost as if I absorbed completely what mattered most to me, and the rest could go.
Anna Quindlen

Almost, Rest, Listen

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

Life, Love, Great

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.
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Sad, Mother, Children

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.
Anna Quindlen

Good, Women, Woman

Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat.
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Work, Down, After

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.
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Today, Tired, America

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?
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Sleep, Woman, Decision

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 to keep you afloat.
Anna Quindlen

Life, Yourself, Parents

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.
Anna Quindlen

Great, Special, Next

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: July 8, 1953

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