List of Anna Quindlen Quotes

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Anna Quindlen
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You just can't tell or calibrate motive or intelligence or sense. so i don't read anything unless someone tells me that it's really smart or illuminating. i don't read any reviews anymore and it's been really liberating.
Smart Reviews Motive
If you raise an intelligent girl she will become a feminist because of the facts of her own life. raising feminist boys is more difficult. raising egalitarian boys. one of the reasons you have to raise them that way is because it's better for them.
Girl Intelligent Boys
I've always had a certain facility with words.
Certain Facility
People ask me all the time if i'm from a family of writers. the literal short answer is no, but my father and his brothers and sisters and his mother are all people who would sit around with a tom collins and tell stories that seemed to get better and better each time they told them.
Mother Brother Father
The one thing that i always got positive reinforcement for from teachers, who really changed my life, was the written word.
Teacher Reinforcement Changed
I like to say that my mother had a very ordinary life. from the outside it didn't look like there was anything particularly special or wonderful about it, but when you watch somebody hold on to that life with both hands, it makes you think that life must be pretty damn good.
Mother Thinking Hands
I think what saved me, as a writer, is that there are really two breaking points in my life. one was when i was 19 and my mother died, and one was when i was 31 and my first child was born. and that sort of gave me a kind of rebirth that i think has been invaluable to me as a novelist, in terms of seeing the world anew.
Mother Children Thinking
My father expected his first child to be a boy, and when it didn't turn out that way he didn't let the fact get in the way of a good story.
Children Father Boys
The truth is that when you're writing a novel you're really living in it; you're living in the house, and you're living in the town.
Writing House Towns
The closest thing to an outline is, because my memory is so bad now, if something occurs to me that i think might be important or pivotal, a lot of times i'll scribble notes down somewhere until i can get back to the book. of course half the time i look at those notes the next morning and think, "what was that about?"
Morning Memories Book
I do get a sense that there's a huge disconnect between the political powers and what's really happening, so right-wing conservatives can talk about contraception all they want, but the women of america are using birth control. it's as simple as that.
Simple Wings America
There's no greater happiness than doing something every day that you love, that you feel you do in a satisfactory fashion, and which both supports and gives you time to support your family. i felt so lucky to have all that.
Fashion Giving Support
  • Born: July 8, 1952
  • Occupation: Author
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