Anna Quindlen Quotes

• 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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• I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.

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• I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

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• I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.

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• I don’t have to listen to the Gospel on Sunday to know the stories of the New Testament. They inform so much of what I write that they’re practically like a news scrim that goes through my brain 24/7.

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• I am an affirmative action hire.

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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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