Anna Quindlen Quotes - Page 16

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• I sort of feel like it comes around again. That when you get to a certain age, when you've lived enough and you've got your friends to support you and your family to support you, you wake up one morning and think, yeah, I'm okay.

  Anna Quindlen

  Morning, Thinking, Support You

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Your hair isn't quite right and maybe you're a size bigger than you should be and on and on and on. I think there comes a moment when you've matured to the point where you suddenly think, nonsense. I am fine just the way I am.

  Anna Quindlen

  Thinking, Hair, Way

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• I do think that people who are now in their sixties and their seventies are living a different kind of life than their grandparents led, even in these tough times. A lot of them are more active, a lot of them are still working, which was not the case when our grandparents were in their sixties.

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  Thinking, People, Grandparent

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• It's an odd kind of feeling because it sort of reminds me of being five again. When you're a five-year-old, you don't pay any attention to what anyone thinks of you. You just sort of are in your skin.

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  Thinking, Years, Feelings

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• I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives.

  Anna Quindlen

  Way, Novel, Reader

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Every Last One: A Novel”, p.315, Random House

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• So I do think sometimes the political mechanism is completely disconnected from the people. However, what I will say is that history tells us that whenever things start to move too fast, whenever progress makes people feel a little breathless, one of the go-to spots that government, that the ruling powers that society goes to is to try to repress women.

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  Moving, Thinking, Government

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• You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership.

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  Writing, Suits, Certain

  Source: urbanmoms.ca

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• I don't do research for my novels. Obviously, in my other line of work as a reporter and a columnist, I've had the opportunity to get to know both social workers and TV talk-show hosts.

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  Opportunity, Research, Lines

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• I've always had a certain facility with words.

  Anna Quindlen

  Certain, Facility

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• I do get a sense that there's a huge disconnect between the political powers and what's really happening, so right-wing conservatives can talk about contraception all they want, but the women of America are using birth control. It's as simple as that.

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  Simple, Wings, America

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• There are a million moving parts to raising kids, and you can't always anticipate them all, especially when they are teenagers and their peers play such a huge role in their lives. If you offer independence, there is one kind of pitfall; if you shelter them too much, there is another. And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that.

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  Teenager, Moving, Kids

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• So you're getting squeezed at both sides. You're taking care of your mom and dad and you're still doing caregiving with your kids, which is not easy. But I think overall, there's a level of satisfaction that might be unparalleled.

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  Mom, Dad, Kids

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• Barack Obama presents as kind of a cool character, and I think that that's his natural personality.

  Anna Quindlen

  Character, Thinking, Personality

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• If you raise an intelligent girl she will become a feminist because of the facts of her own life. Raising feminist boys is more difficult. Raising egalitarian boys. One of the reasons you have to raise them that way is because it's better for them.

  Anna Quindlen

  Girl, Intelligent, Boys

  Source: urbanmoms.ca

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• I think the very best thing about the internet is that I can read all the London papers every day if I want to.

  Anna Quindlen

  Thinking, Paper, Want

  Source: urbanmoms.ca

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• I go online all the time, I just don't read about myself. I read a fashion website called Go Fug Yourself. I actually correspond with the Fug Girls and that's great.

  Anna Quindlen

  Girl, Fashion, Online

  Source: urbanmoms.ca

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• You just can't tell or calibrate motive or intelligence or sense. So I don't read anything unless someone tells me that it's really smart or illuminating. I don't read any reviews anymore and it's been really liberating.

  Anna Quindlen

  Smart, Reviews, Motive

  Source: urbanmoms.ca

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• I think at every moment in the last probably 100 years, when the institutional church had the opportunity to do the right thing, they did the wrong thing. They're a dying institution in many parts of the world because they refuse to ordain women or married people. And now they're a dying institution because some of their members did enormous harm to young people and instead of responding aggressively with humility, and with love, and with the confession of wrongdoing, they tried to spin it as though they were a political party, and that's just deplorable.

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  Party, Humility, Opportunity

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• The New Testament has had a really powerful effect on how I write and how I live my life.

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  Powerful, Writing, Living My Life

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• I think what saved me, as a writer, is that there are really two breaking points in my life. One was when I was 19 and my mother died, and one was when I was 31 and my first child was born. And that sort of gave me a kind of rebirth that I think has been invaluable to me as a novelist, in terms of seeing the world anew.

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  Mother, Children, Thinking

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• While liberals had embraced Obama as someone who had left-wing progressive ideas, the truth is that by personality he's a very incremental guy.

  Anna Quindlen

  Wings, Ideas, Personality

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• Barack Obama is the kind of guy who likes to do things by inches, he's the kind of guy who likes to build consensus and compromise.

  Anna Quindlen

  Guy, Likes, Compromise

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• Novels are usually built on conflict, sometimes very, very difficult conflict. It's why men write war novels - because there you go, there's the conflict writ large.

  Anna Quindlen

  War, Writing, Men

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