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.

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But it's 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.

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All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.

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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.

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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.

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Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.

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People always blame the girl she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.

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If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.

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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.

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The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.

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The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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

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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 women In some ways we're as committed to the old madonna-whore dichotomy as ever. And the madonna stays home, feeding the baby behind the blinds, a vestige of those days when for a lady to venture out was a flagrant act of public exposure.

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Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.

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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

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Women are the glue that holds our day-to-day world together.

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