Anna Quindlen Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• what we call things matters. ... The words we use, and how we perceive those words, reflect how we value, or devalue, people, places, and things.

  Anna Quindlen

  People, Matter, Use

  Anna Quindlen (2012). “Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life”, p.106, Random House

• Parents have railed against shelters near schools, but no one has made any connection between the crazed consumerism of our kids and their elders' cold unconcern toward others. Maybe the homeless are not the only ones who need to spend time in these places to thaw out.

  Anna Quindlen

  School, Kids, Parent

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.37, Ballantine Books

• Jail sentences have many functions, but one is surely to send a message about what our society abhors and what it values. This week, the equation was twofold: female infidelity twice as bad as male abuse, the life of a woman half as valuable as that of a man. The killing of the woman taken in adultery has a long history and survives today in many cultures. One of those is our own.

  Anna Quindlen

  Taken, Men, Law

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