Anna Quindlen: Quotes about people

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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.”

Anna Quindlen
Funny , Children , People , Thinking

“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

Love , People , Way , Feeling

“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

Children , People , Books , Age

“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).

Wisdom , People , Girl , Boy

“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 , Dogs , Cats