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Anna Quindlen Quote: “Maybe everyone stays the same inside, even when their life looks nothing like what they once had, or even imagined.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “There is so much obligatory generosity to being a good mother, a good wife, a good friend. Solitude is an acceptable form of selfishness.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “It was a puzzle to her, how eagerly she’d rushed into life when she was eighteen or twenty, and in what a desultory fashion it had dragged out ever since.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “Begin the work of becoming yourself.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “You’re like a cake when you’re young. You can’t rush it or it will fall, or just turn out wrong. Rising takes patience, and heat.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “The unemployment rate among the young in the United States is still very disconcerting, although we all know it’s nowhere near as bad as it is in some of the European countries, where in some places it approaches 50 percent.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “Then when she really thought about it she realized she’d been becoming different people for as long as she could remember but had never really noticed, or had put it down to moods, or marriage, or motherhood. The problem was that she’d thought that at a certain point she would be a finished product.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “The difference between government and leadership is that leadership has a soul.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “When I got older I realized that the majority of people in Miller’s Valley were the most discontented kind of Americans, working people whose situations hadn’t risen or fallen over generations, but who still carried a little bit of those streets-paved-with-gold illusions and so were always annoyed that the streets were paved with tar. If they were paved at all. Maybe.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “I was sick in my soul for that greater meaning of home that we understand most purely when we are children, when it is a metaphor for all possible feelings of security, of safety, of what is predictable, gentle, and good in life. During.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn’t ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “He realized that there was a point to that ungainly empty area between the human shoulder and chin: it was the perfect place to rest an infant.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “It turned out that when my younger self thought of taking wing, she wanted only to let her spirit soar. Books are the plane, the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “Hospitals are a little like the beach. The next wave comes in, and the footprints of your pain and suffering, your delivery and recovery, are obliterated...”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “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.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “I’m writing this memoir from the perspective of somebody who’s prosperous and has means. Having said that, one of the things that I think I discovered about those additional years is that I don’t think they really are added to the end of life.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people just like me.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “People froze you in place. More important, you froze yourself, often into a person in whom you truly had no interest.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver’s seat and keeping quiet.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women?”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “All of life like a series of tableaux, and in the living we missed so much, hid so much, left so much undone and unsaid.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “Sometimes things have to come when you’re ready for them.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “Then one day we suddenly realized that we had been keeping him alive not because it was good for him, but because it was good for us, because it was too hard to make the decision to let him go. And in the joyful bargain between dog and person, that is the one unforgivable cheat.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “When one of you wanted one life, and the other wanted something completely different, there was a technical term for that: irreconcilable.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “I’ve discovered that sometimes writing badly can eventually lead to something better. Not writing at all leads to nothing.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “For so long I’d thought about myself as a girl who’d walked away from her mother’s life that it would be a long time before I would start to think about the other part of the bargain, how easily she’d let me go.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “All of reading is really only finding ways to name ourselves, and, perhaps, to name the others around us so that they will no longer seem like strangers. Crusoe and Friday. Ishmael and Ahab. Daisy and Gatsby. Pip and Estella. Me. Me. Me. I am not alone. I am surrounded by words that tell me who I am, why I feel what I feel.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “Nora remembered drawing in the sand of her future with a stick. What she couldn’t recall was when the sand had become cement, the who-I-want-to-be turned for once and for all into who-I-am.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “Crusoe and Friday. Ishmael and Ahab. Daisy and Gatsby. Pip and Estella. Me. Me. Me. I am not alone. I am surrounded by words that tell me who I am, why I feel what I feel. Or maybe they just help me while away the hours as the rain pounds down on the porch roof, taking me away from the gloom and on to somewhere sunny, somewhere else.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “I don’t care that much about getting older, but I don’t want to be forgotten, because to be remembered is to live and to be loved.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “All my life I had known one thing for sure about myself, and that was that my life would never be her life. I had moved as far and as fast as I could; now I was back at my beginning.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “It’s a complicated relationship, being a good grandparent, because it hinges on a series of other relationships... Because being a grandparent is determined by the relationship your child has with you, partly determined by the one a son or daughter has with his or her spouse, partly determined by the relationship you have with the person your child has chosen to have a child with.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “Her face looks like a room with no drapes or shades.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “It’s only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “When hot dogs like Mr. D’Amato or the Republican apologist Roger Ailes say that Whitewater is worse than Watergate, it’s because they’re suffering from a disease. It’s called bull-imia, and it’s the regurgitation of patent hyperbole.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not a public man. Particularly not this one.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.” She actually sometimes thought that was the definition of marriage.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “For most of my life the only ceremonies I’ve been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like weddings.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “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.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “It’s hard to imagine yourself in the future. It’s why people do so many dumb things, because they’re mired in the moment. Smoking, drinking, making disastrous marriages, putting off medical tests. The reason we’ve made a mess of the planet is that being its stewards required us to imagine not our own futures but those four or five generations removed.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “Mrs. Blessing was surprised at how fluently she lied, much better than she’d done it years before, when it had been so much more important, at least to her. She realized that lying was easier than telling the truth because it had such nice smooth edges, not jagged with impossibility and inconvenience the way the truth so often was.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “People have writer’s block not because they can’t write, but because they despair of writing eloquently.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “I lived within the cover of books and those books were more real to me than any other thing in my life.”
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