Anna Quindlen Quotes

• The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.

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• The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you’d never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.

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• The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.

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• Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you’re tired of hearing about us, you should try being one of us.

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• Raising a child is a little like Picasso’s work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat.

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

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• New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I’ve discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.

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• Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

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• Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.

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• In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.

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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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• If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.

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• If there is anyone who’s living the work of the New Testament, it’s the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy.

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• If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.

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• If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn’t have invented The New York Review of Books.

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• Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don’t discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it’s stupid. Banning books shows you don’t trust your kids to think and you don’t trust yourself to be able to talk to them.

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• Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.

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• I’m sure not afraid of success and I’ve learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I’m afraid of now is of being someone I don’t like much.

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• I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.

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• I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.

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Anna Quindlen (56)

Birth:	8th July, 1952
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Columnist, Journalist, Novelist, Writer

About

Anna Marie Quindlen is an American author, journalist, and opinion columnist whose New York Times column, Public and Private, won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992. She began her journalism career in 1974 as a reporter for the New York Post. Between 1977 and 1994 she held several posts at The New York Times. Quindlen left journalism in 1995 to become a full-time novelist. She has written five best-selling novels, three of which have been made into movies. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to an Irish father and an Italian mother, Quindlen graduated in 1970 from South Brunswick High School in South Brunswick, New Jersey and then attended Barnard College from which she graduated in 1974. She is married to prominent New Jersey attorney Gerald Krovatin whom she met while in college.

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