Anna Quindlen Quotes - Page 9

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• What I expect from my male friends is that they are polite and clean. What I expect from my female friends is unconditional love, the ability to finish my sentences for me when I am sobbing, a complete and total willingness to pour their hearts out to me, and the ability to tell me why the meat thermometer isn't supposed to touch the bone.

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  Friendship, Women, Heart

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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• 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.

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  Father, Winning, Race

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• 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.

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  Country, California, Diversity

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.4, Ballantine Books

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• The Cairo conferenceis about a complicated web of education and employment, consumption and poverty, development and health care. It is also about whether governments will follow where women have so clearly led them, toward safe, simple and reliable choices in family planning. While Cairo crackles with conflict, in the homes of the world the orthodoxies have been duly heard, and roundly ignored.

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  Home, Simple, Government

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• I did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning. I read because I loved it more than any other activity on earth.

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  Advancement, Earth, Activity

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “How Reading Changed My Life”, p.9, Ballantine Books

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• It is hard to find someone who will give your children a feeling of security while it lasts and not wound them too much when it isfinished, who will treat those children as if they were her own, but knows--and never forgets--that they are yours.

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  Children, Giving, Feelings

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.90, Ballantine Books

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• There are obvious places in which government can narrow the chasm between haves and have-nots. One is the public schools, which have been seen as the great leveler, the authentic melting pot. That, today, is nonsense. In his scathing study of the nation's public school system entitled "Savage Inequalities," Jonathan Kozol made manifest the truth: that we have a system that discriminates against the poor in everything from class size to curriculum.

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  Education, School, Class

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• Predictions that unit cohesion could not survive honesty about sexual orientation were simply wrong. What does threaten morale arethe prolonged investigations, the questioning of friends and co-workers, the searches of barracks for magazines and letters, the witch hunts.

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  Honesty, Doe, Magazines

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• It is difficult for me to imagine the same dedication to women's rights on the part of the kind of man who lives in partnership with someone he likes and respects, and the kind of man who considers breast-augmentation surgery self-improvement.

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  Men, Dedication, Self

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.140, Ballantine Books

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• For most of my adult life, I have been an emotional hit-and- run driver--that is, a reporter. I made people like me, trust me, open their hearts and their minds to me, and cry and bleed on to the pages of my neat little notebooks, and then I went back to a safe place and made a story out of it.

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  Trust, Notebook, Running

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.224, Ballantine Books

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• Being accused of making money by selling sex in Hollywood, home of the casting couch and the gratuitous nude scene, is so rich with irony that it's a better subject for a comic novel than a column.... On one coast the cops are busting sex workers on Eighth Avenue, dragging them downtown to night court where they pay the fine and go right back to their corner; on another they're charging Heidi Fleiss with pandering in a town in which the verb is an art form.

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  Art, Sex, Home

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• The best thing about Sassy Seats is that grandmothers cannot figure out how they work and are in constant fear of the child's falling. This often makes them forget to comment on other aspects of the child's development, like why he is not yet talking or is still wearing diapers. Some grandmothers will spend an entire meal peering beneath the table and saying, "Is that thing steady?" rather than, "Have you had a doctor look at that left hand?

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  Children, Fall, Sassy

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.115, Ballantine Books

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• It is so easy to exist instead of live.

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  Easy

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• Having children can smooth the relationship, too. Mother and daughter are now equals. That is hard to imagine, even harder to accept, for among other things, it means realizing that your own mother felt this way, too--unsure of herself, weak in the knees, terrified about what in the world to do with you. It means accepting that she was tired, inept, sometimes stupid; that she, too, sat in the dark at 2:00 A.M. with a child shrieking across the hall and no clue to the child's trouble.

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  Mother, Daughter, Children

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.101, Ballantine Books

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• Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around, and nearly every book represents what my son's third grade teacher refers to as a "teachable moment.

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  Teacher, Book, Son

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• 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.

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  Lying, Men, Ordinary

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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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  Heart, Mean, Dedication

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.83, Ballantine Books

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• For most of my life the only ceremonies I've been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like weddings.

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  Stars, Ceremony

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.161, Ballantine Books

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• Well, we tell our kids things like 'don't gossip' and then an hour later they hear us on the phone. Stuff like that.

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  Kids, Phones, Gossip

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• [President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their fellow citizens associated with Third World countries and the novels of Dickens was as dangerous as any battlefield enemy.

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  Country, Political Will, Enemy

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• Maybe someday it will seem quaint that, during a time of plague, some of the parents of the 1990s wanted to deny their children protection so that they could safeguard their own self- image. Or maybe we'll just seem like a bunch of lunatics.

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  Children, Self, Parent

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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 andtorturous, involving and utterly tedious, all at the same time. The world is full of women made to feel strange because what everyone assumes comes naturally is so difficult to do--never mind to do well.

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  Jobs, Motherhood, Childhood

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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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  Marriage, Two, People

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.78, Ballantine Books

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• Look at the view and you'll never be disappointed.

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  Views, Looks, Disappointed

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• Kids and violent TV, violent TV and violence, violence and kids. The only people missing from this discussion are the parents. Where are we? Gone. Abdicated.

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  Kids, People, Parent

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