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Famous Anna Quindlen Quotes

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”

Anna Quindlen

Source: How Reading Changed My Life

“There's something undeniable about the posture of a person trying not to acknowledge your existance”

Anna Quindlen

Source: Every Last One

“I wondered why I hadn't loved that day more, why I hadn't savored every bit of it… why I hadn't known how good it was to live so normally, so everyday. But you only know that, I suppose, after it's not normal and every day any longer.”

Anna Quindlen

Source: One True Thing

“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

“Nothing important, or meaningful, or beautiful, or interesting, or great ever came out of imitations. The thing that is really hard and really amazing is to give up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”

Anna Quindlen

“You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.”

Anna Quindlen

Source: A Short Guide to a Happy Life

Anna Quindlen Quotes about love

“those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers…”

Anna Quindlen

Source: How Reading Changed My Life

“Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.”

Anna Quindlen

Source: Every Last One

“There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother… Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.”

Anna Quindlen

“Some of my best friends are men. It is simply that I think women are superior to men. There, I've said it. It's my dirty little secret. […]
The other day, a very wise friend of mine asked "Have you ever noticed that what passes as a terrific man would only be an adequate woman?" A Roman candle went off in my head; she was absolutely right. What I expect from my male friends is that there are polite and clean. What I expect from my female friends is unconditional love, the ability to finish my sentences for me when I am sobbing, and the ability to tell me why the meat thermometer isn't supposed to touch the bone.”

Anna Quindlen

The New York Times. Living Out Loud, pp. 26-27 (1988)

“Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia, racism, sexism, terrorism, bigotry of every variety and hue, because it tells us there is one right way to do things, to look, to behave, to feel, when the only right way is to feel your heart hammering inside you and to listen to what its timpani is saying.”

Anna Quindlen

Anna Quindlen, in Loud and Clear http://books.google.co.in/books?id=lHQQeWXNgpIC, p. 307

Anna Quindlen Quotes about people

“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

“Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it.”

Anna Quindlen

Source: Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City

“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.”

Anna Quindlen

The New York Times. Thinking Out Loud, p. 122 (1993)

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

Anna Quindlen

The New York Times, sect. 4, p. 13 (April 11, 1993).

Anna Quindlen Quotes

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

Anna Quindlen

“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.”

Anna Quindlen

Source: How Reading Changed My Life

“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

“The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea at a table sticky with spilled apple juice and littered with markers without tops.”

Anna Quindlen

“Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.”

Anna Quindlen

Source: Every Last One

“Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.”

Anna Quindlen book Black and Blue

Source: Black and Blue

“the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.”

Anna Quindlen

Source: How Reading Changed My Life

“A finished person is a boring person.”

Anna Quindlen

“We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.”

Anna Quindlen

Source: How Reading Changed My Life

“The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.”

Anna Quindlen

“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

Source: Living Out Loud

“And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that.”

Anna Quindlen

“All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.”

Anna Quindlen

“Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.”

Anna Quindlen

Source: A Short Guide to a Happy Life

“Maybe crazy is just the word we use for feelings that will not be contained.”

Anna Quindlen

Source: Every Last One

“Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives."

[, Newsweek Magazine, March 25, 2010]”

Anna Quindlen

“Speech is the voice of the heart.”

Anna Quindlen

“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

The dangers of an AIDS epidemic. The New York Times, sect. A, p. 31 (December 9, 1993).

“If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be inexpensive, too.”

Anna Quindlen

The New York Times. Living Out Loud, p. 31 (1988)

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