Anna Quindlen Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• In a democratic society, the only treason is silence.

  Anna Quindlen

  Silence, Democratic, Treason

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.102, Random House

• Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us.

  Anna Quindlen

  Grief, Silence, Funeral

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.157, Random House

• Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us. It is a whisper in the world and a clamor within. More than sex, more than faith, even more than its usher death, grief is unspoken, publicly ignored except for those moments at the funeral that are over too quickly, or the conversations among the cognoscenti, those of us who recognize in one another a kindred chasm deep in the center of who we are.

  Anna Quindlen

  Sex, Grief, Silence

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.157, Random House

• There may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an irony it would be if fanatics continued to kill and yet it was the apathy and silence of the medical profession that most wounded the ability to provide what is, after all, a medical procedure.

  Anna Quindlen

  Doctors, Rights, Medicine

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