Best Quotes by Anna Quindlen (Top 10)
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Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
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The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
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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.
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Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.
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There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.
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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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The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.
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Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character, your intellect, your inclinations, and yes, your soul by listening to its clean, clear voice of direction instead of following the muddied messages of a timid world.
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A finished person is a boring person.
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And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that.
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More Anna Quindlen Quotes
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Speech is the voice of the heart.
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You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
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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? In some ways we're as committed to the old madonna-whore dichotomy as ever. And the madonna stays home, feeding the baby behind the blinds, a vestige of those days when for a lady to venture out was a flagrant act of public exposure.
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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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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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I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy
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The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and tortuous.
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It is so easy to waste our lives: Our days, our hours, our minutes ... it is so easy to exist instead of live.
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Familiarity breeds content.
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It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for their daughters, and their sons, too. It's the way we talk about and treat one another. It's who makes the money and who makes the compromises and who makes dinner. It's a state of mind. It's the way we live now.
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I know the difference now between dedication and infatuation. That doesn't mean I don't still get an enormous kick out of infatuation;: the exciting ephemera, the punch in the stomach, the adrenaline to the heart.
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You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.
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A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.
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