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Anna Quindlen quotes: Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules. Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.
Anna Quindlen quotes: It's only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions. It's only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions.
Anna Quindlen quotes: Control is a nice concept, little more. Control is a nice concept, little more.
Anna Quindlen quotes: Reading has as many functions as the human body, and ... not all of them are cerebral. Reading has as many functions as the human body, and ... not all of them are cerebral.
Anna Quindlen quotes: Sometimes things have to come when you're ready for them. Sometimes things have to come when you're ready for them.
Anna Quindlen quotes: Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked. Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked.
Anna Quindlen quotes: There are ways and ways of dying, and some of them leave you walking around. There are ways and ways of dying, and some of them leave you walking around.
Anna Quindlen quotes: ha! They will get to that place soon enough. ha! They will get to that place soon enough.
Anna Quindlen quotes: He'd had a dog once, in that way he'd had everything in his childhood, ordinary but a lot less lasting. He'd had a dog once, in that way he'd had everything in his childhood, ordinary but a lot less lasting.
Anna Quindlen quotes: It was easy to figure out how people ought to behave out in the world if you never went out in the world yourself. It was easy to figure out how people ought to behave out in the world if you never went out in the world yourself.
Anna Quindlen quotes: It's a lot harder to save people than you think it is. It's a lot harder to save people than you think it is.
Anna Quindlen quotes: Part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition. Part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition.
Anna Quindlen quotes: Maybe crazy is just the word we use for feelings that will not be contained. Maybe crazy is just the word we use for feelings that will not be contained.
Anna Quindlen quotes: First you have one sort of life and then you have another. I'm sorry, that must sound odd." "No it doesn't. That's what happens to everybody. You First you have one sort of life and then you have another. I'm sorry, that must sound odd." "No it doesn't. That's what happens to everybody. You
Anna Quindlen quotes: One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity. One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.
Anna Quindlen quotes: A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a life. A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a life.
Anna Quindlen quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Nearly everyone I meet expresses deep sympathy about the fact that I have never married. Sometimes I wonder why. Nearly everyone I meet expresses deep sympathy about the fact that I have never married. Sometimes I wonder why.
Anna Quindlen quotes: I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehersal, and that today is the only guarantee you get. I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehersal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.
Anna Quindlen quotes: Well, we tell our kids things like 'don't gossip' and then an hour later they hear us on the phone. Stuff like that. Well, we tell our kids things like 'don't gossip' and then an hour later they hear us on the phone. Stuff like that.
Anna Quindlen quotes: 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. 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.
Anna Quindlen quotes: Get a life. A real life. Not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house. Get a life. A real life. Not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house.
Anna Quindlen quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Books became the greatest purveyors of truth, and the truth shall make you free. Books became the greatest purveyors of truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Anna Quindlen quotes: I've discovered that sometimes writing badly can eventually lead to something better. Not writing at all leads to nothing. I've discovered that sometimes writing badly can eventually lead to something better. Not writing at all leads to nothing.
Anna Quindlen quotes: Loss as muse. Loss as character. Loss as life. Loss as muse. Loss as character. Loss as life.
Anna Quindlen quotes: Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed. Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.
Anna Quindlen quotes: There are only two ways, really, to become a writer. One is to write. The other is to read. There are only two ways, really, to become a writer. One is to write. The other is to read.
Anna Quindlen quotes: A bookthe book that was, for some reason, THE bookcan be reread, unchanged. Only we have changed. And that makes all the difference. A book
the book that was, for some reason, THE book
can be reread, unchanged. Only we have changed. And that makes all the difference.
Anna Quindlen quotes: Over the last twenty years, we've changed the world just enough to make it radically different, but not enough to make it work. Over the last twenty years, we've changed the world just enough to make it radically different, but not enough to make it work.
Anna Quindlen quotes: I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before. I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before.
Anna Quindlen quotes: To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do, said Victor Hugo. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do, said Victor Hugo.
Anna Quindlen quotes: I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.
Anna Quindlen quotes: Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. And the results always illusory. Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. And the results always illusory.
Anna Quindlen quotes: There is so much obligatory generosity to being a good mother, a good wife, a good friend. Solitude is an acceptable form of selfishness. 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 quotes: What we call things matters ... The words we use, and how we perceive those words, reflect how we value, or devalue, people, places, and things. What we call things matters ... The words we use, and how we perceive those words, reflect how we value, or devalue, people, places, and things.
Anna Quindlen quotes: I believe that in a contest between the living and the almost living, the latter must, if necessary, give way to the will of the former. I believe that in a contest between the living and the almost living, the latter must, if necessary, give way to the will of the former.
Anna Quindlen quotes: Speech is the voice of the heart. Speech is the voice of the heart.
Anna Quindlen quotes: The women I know who are happiest today are the ones who have close female friends. Maybe that's true of men, too, but essentially it's different. The women I know who are happiest today are the ones who have close female friends. Maybe that's true of men, too, but essentially it's different.
Anna Quindlen quotes: My friendships have a certain symmetry at the moment: Alice is always asking me what she should do, and Nancy is always telling me what I should do. My friendships have a certain symmetry at the moment: Alice is always asking me what she should do, and Nancy is always telling me what I should do.
Anna Quindlen quotes: Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
Anna Quindlen quotes: All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading. All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.
Anna Quindlen quotes: Some of the most important lessons I've learned have been from stumbling, and I am deeply grateful that my parents allowed me to fight my own battles. Some of the most important lessons I've learned have been from stumbling, and I am deeply grateful that my parents allowed me to fight my own battles.
Anna Quindlen quotes: The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and tortuous. The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and tortuous.
Anna Quindlen quotes: At a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now. At a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now.
Anna Quindlen quotes: You can tell a really wonderful quote by the fact that it's attributed to a whole raft of wits. You can tell a really wonderful quote by the fact that it's attributed to a whole raft of wits.
Anna Quindlen quotes: ...I had enough of real life everyday to last me forever. ...I had enough of real life everyday to last me forever.
Anna Quindlen quotes: It would take a helluva man to replace no man at all. It would take a helluva man to replace no man at all.
Anna Quindlen quotes: Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience. Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.
Anna Quindlen quotes: She had the odd sense that she had been missing something, seeing the world flat when everything was rounded. She had the odd sense that she had been missing something, seeing the world flat when everything was rounded.
Anna Quindlen quotes: So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness. So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness.
Anna Quindlen quotes: Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die. 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 quotes: The purse is the mirror of the soul. The purse is the mirror of the soul.
Anna Quindlen quotes: 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. 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.
Anna Quindlen quotes: You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are. You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
Anna Quindlen quotes: She wants to be someone else, somewhere else, and I can't blame her. She wants to be someone else, somewhere else, and I can't blame her.
Anna Quindlen quotes: If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail. If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.
Anna Quindlen quotes: It was like death, except I had to go on living. It was like death, except I had to go on living.
Anna Quindlen quotes: Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be honest. Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be honest.
Anna Quindlen quotes: A fix-it man, they used to call it, when things still got fixed instead of just junked. If A fix-it man, they used to call it, when things still got fixed instead of just junked. If
Anna Quindlen quotes: Women are the glue that holds our day-to-day world together. Women are the glue that holds our day-to-day world together.
Anna Quindlen quotes: Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones. Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.
Anna Quindlen quotes: I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives. I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives.
Anna Quindlen quotes: Maybe everyone stays the same inside, even when their life looks nothing like what they once had, or even imagined. Maybe everyone stays the same inside, even when their life looks nothing like what they once had, or even imagined.
Anna Quindlen quotes: For most of my life the only ceremonies I've been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like weddings. 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 quotes: Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: If you win the rat race, you're still a rat. Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.
Anna Quindlen quotes: A writer is always working with whatever she's managed to store in the brainpan or puzzle out about the world. A writer is always working with whatever she's managed to store in the brainpan or puzzle out about the world.
Anna Quindlen quotes: Easing up on seventy, an age when a man might be forgiven follicular failure. Easing up on seventy, an age when a man might be forgiven follicular failure.
Anna Quindlen quotes: Even the outright deletions that Ayn Rand's editor should have taken care of). Even the outright deletions that Ayn Rand's editor should have taken care of).
Anna Quindlen quotes: Funny, that no one had ever asked what had happened to the dishes, the scraps, the crumbs in the photographs, on the poster. Funny, that no one had ever asked what had happened to the dishes, the scraps, the crumbs in the photographs, on the poster.
Anna Quindlen quotes: If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books. If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.
Anna Quindlen quotes: The Statue of Liberty is meant to be shorthand for a country so unlike its parts that a trip from California to Indiana should require a passport. The Statue of Liberty is meant to be shorthand for a country so unlike its parts that a trip from California to Indiana should require a passport.
Anna Quindlen quotes: I can't think of a single downside to motherhood now. I can't think of a single downside to motherhood now.
Anna Quindlen quotes: Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description. Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description.
Anna Quindlen quotes: Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it. Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it.
Anna Quindlen quotes: In life, the classroom is everywhere. The exam comes at the very end. In life, the classroom is everywhere. The exam comes at the very end.
Anna Quindlen quotes: Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around. Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.
Anna Quindlen quotes: The curse of having young people about the house was that they were always so redolent of possibility. The curse of having young people about the house was that they were always so redolent of possibility.
Anna Quindlen quotes: It is so easy to exist instead of live. It is so easy to exist instead of live.
Anna Quindlen quotes: In a democratic society, the only treason is silence. In a democratic society, the only treason is silence.
Anna Quindlen quotes: She is a prisoner in the amber of her own past. She is a prisoner in the amber of her own past.
Anna Quindlen quotes: That's why I ask." "What That's why I ask." "What
Anna Quindlen quotes: It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit. It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
Anna Quindlen quotes: This is what it is like to be married: conversations in which no one actually speaks. This is what it is like to be married: conversations in which no one actually speaks.
Anna Quindlen quotes: Here is what I know about dressing like your teenage daughter: She will always look better than you Here is what I know about dressing like your teenage daughter: She will always look better than you
Anna Quindlen quotes: There were a thousand ways to imagine someone unhappy and so few ways to imagine someone contented. There were a thousand ways to imagine someone unhappy and so few ways to imagine someone contented.
Anna Quindlen quotes: That's what makes life so hard for women, that instead of thinking that this is the way things are, we always think it's the way we are. That's what makes life so hard for women, that instead of thinking that this is the way things are, we always think it's the way we are.
Anna Quindlen quotes: For the young the days go fast and the years go slow; for the old the days go slow and the years go fast. For the young the days go fast and the years go slow; for the old the days go slow and the years go fast.
Anna Quindlen quotes: Anyone familiar with the love affairs between men and women could have told them that theirs would soon be over. Anyone familiar with the love affairs between men and women could have told them that theirs would soon be over.
Anna Quindlen quotes: High fashion has little to do with what women wear and a lot to do with what retailers mark down later. High fashion has little to do with what women wear and a lot to do with what retailers mark down later.
Anna Quindlen quotes: 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. 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.
Anna Quindlen quotes: My husband and I have together created three children, but we have separate finances, and that's the way I like it. My husband and I have together created three children, but we have separate finances, and that's the way I like it.
Anna Quindlen quotes: The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with. The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.
Anna Quindlen quotes: The separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government. The separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government.
Anna Quindlen quotes: We gave him to a family with a farm, Son, his father had said when he got home from school. We gave him to a family with a farm, Son, his father had said when he got home from school.
Anna Quindlen quotes: But no one ever leaves the town where they grew up, not really, even if they go. But no one ever leaves the town where they grew up, not really, even if they go.
Anna Quindlen quotes: Words, words. They mean nothing, less than nothing. I know. Words, words. They mean nothing, less than nothing. I know.
Anna Quindlen quotes: We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming. We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming.
Anna Quindlen quotes: She had certainly learned about not having enough money, which is different from being poor. She had certainly learned about not having enough money, which is different from being poor.
Anna Quindlen quotes: I was doing the family grocery shopping accompanied by two children, an event I hope to see included in the Olympics in the near future. I was doing the family grocery shopping accompanied by two children, an event I hope to see included in the Olympics in the near future.

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