Anna Quindlen Quotes - Page 3

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• Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us.

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  Grief, Silence, Funeral

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.157, Random House

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• But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated.

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  Respect, Kids, Important

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• Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die.

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  Children, Games, Play

  Anna Quindlen (2012). “Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life”, p.121, Random House

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• I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before.

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  Stories, Love Story, Happy Endings

  Source: urbanmoms.ca

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• When you look at the women that have made a real difference in the world throughout history, what they’ve done has almost always been defined by fearlessness. That’s something I came to at a certain point; I wish I’d come to it younger. Stop looking over your shoulder — there’s nobody who matters back there.

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  Real, Differences, Over You

  "Anna Quindlen On Tooting Your Own Horn, Fearlessness And Raising Feminist Sons". Interview with Nina Bahadur, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2014.

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• All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.

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  Children, Gay, People

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.29, Ballantine Books

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• Your kids are launched. You love your work but you understand how to place it in the panorama of the rest of your life. There's this line in the book, and when I wrote it I thought yes, that's it - if you think of life as a job, maybe by the time you get to, say, in my case, 60, you've finally gotten good at it.

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  Jobs, Book, Love You

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think when people keep saying to you, "You're good at this," you just keep doing it.

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  Thinking, People

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• My most pronounced writing habit is trying not to write.

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  Writing, Trying, Habit

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

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• The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you.

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  Sometimes, Life Is, Easy

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• 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.

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  Motherhood, Two, Apples

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• I don't understand how people learn to live in the world if they haven't had siblings. Everything I learned about negotiation, territoriality, coexistence, dislike, inbred differences and love despite knowledge I learned from my four younger siblings.

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  Sibling, Differences, People

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• You realize that these accidental decisions you make about changing jobs, about moving into an apartment where you make new friends and confidants, about going to one city over another, that sometimes they're completely arbitrary decisions that you haven't put as much thought into as perhaps you should have, and yet they change the course of your whole life.

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  Jobs, Moving, Decisions You Make

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When I quit The New York Times to be a fulltime mother, the voices of the world said I was nuts....But if success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your soul, it is not success at all.

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  Inspirational, Mother, New York

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• The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed.

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  Dog, Good Person, Good Dog

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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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  Ignorant, Speech, Reason Why

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• Raising children is a spur-of-the-moment, seat-of-the-pants sort of deal, as any parent knows, particularly after an adult child says that his most searing memory consists of an offhand comment in the car on the way to second grade that the parent cannot even dimly recall.

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  Memories, Children, Car

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• As I said, I had this fabulous college education. At college I met the man to whom I've been married for 34 years and who is the father of those three kids. I seriously considered going to another college, and my life would have been completely different in every way.

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  Father, Kids, College

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Socialized medicine, some still cry, but it's long been socialized, with those covered paying for those who are underinsured. American medicine is simply socialized badly, penny wise and pound foolish.

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  Wise, Medicine, Long

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• She say guilt is a useless emotion." "Oh, please," says Nancy. "Guilt is what separates humans from animals.

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  Animal, Guilt, Useless

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Every Last One: A Novel”, p.48, Random House

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• Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time.

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  Fall, Humanity, Faces

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• All the things we don’t say, all the words we swallow, and it makes nothing but trouble.

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  Trouble

  Anna Quindlen (2003). “Object Lessons: One True Thing ; Black and Blue”

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• February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green shoots two months hence seems preposterous, the ground hard and cold, the snow dirty, the winter hateful, hanging on too long.

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  Dirty, Winter, Two

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• It would take a helluva man to replace no man at all.

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  Men

  Anna Quindlen (2012). “Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life”, p.35, Random House

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• This is why I had children: to offer them a perfect dream of childhood that can fill their souls as they grow older.

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  Dream, Children, Perfect

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.5, Ballantine Books

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