Quotes by Anna Quindlen

Anna Quindlen

Anna Quindlen

American author and journalist

Lived from: 1952 -

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 8 july 1952

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  • Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.
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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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  • 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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  • Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.
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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.
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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.
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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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  • 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 greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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.
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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.
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