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Anna Quindlen
Anna Quindlen
American Journalist
Born: Jul 8, 1953
Children Life Me People Think You
Related authors: Ambrose Bierce Dave Barry Erma Bombeck Hunter S. Thompson Mignon McLaughlin Walter Cronkite William F. Buckley, Jr. William Lloyd Garrison
There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger. Anna Quindlen
Good Good Things World Gun Gun Control Control Hunger Solution Detector About More Both Talk Metal Lot Than Forks Now Things
After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.' Anna Quindlen
Morning Woman Women Smart Thought Enough Those One Morning Pretty Almost Overnight Woke Years Hearing Up After Thin
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. Anna Quindlen
Work Yourself Amazing Giving Giving Up Beginning Perfect Becoming Up Being Really Hard Thing
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
Free Free Speech Suppressed Several Must Given Instead Often Against Ignorant Speaker Reasons Works Rein Why Speech
Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them. Anna Quindlen
You Ignorance Trust Yourself Stupid Think Books Kids Able Only Ideas Suppress Talk Bliss Discuss Banning Them Your Shows Lethal
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. Anna Quindlen
People Building Design Think Enough Consists Kind Would Would-Be Most Mostly Content Up Children Grew Decorating Who
Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts. Anna Quindlen
Lasts Back Right Thing One Thing Clear Come Come And Go Look Go Integration The Right Thing Fashions Right Thing Suffrage Slavery
If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books. Anna Quindlen
God People Books Harvard Magazine Invented Had New She Review York New York Meant Appear Professors
The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved. Law, institutions, corporations moved forward. But many minds did not. Anna Quindlen
Problem Law Opportunities Opportunity Revolution Doors Changed Minds Corporations Evolved Opened Institutions Equal Equal Opportunity Years Did Moved Forward Many Last
Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules. Anna Quindlen
Freedom Parenting Enough Once Rules Learned Children Themselves Should
The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools. Anna Quindlen
Future You Culture People School Listening Kids Prom Tell High High School Never Attending Know Most Schools Messages Talking Court Reunion Built Brains Get After Even
A finished person is a boring person. Anna Quindlen
Finished Boring Person
There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too. Anna Quindlen
Great Too Settled Kin About Emergency Emergency Room Something Soothing Romance Form Room Turning Next Special
All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child. Anna Quindlen
Gay People Cursing Parents Own Mock Mocking Child May Curse Should Aware
Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle. Anna Quindlen
Life About Through Beginnings Endings Going Middle Much
The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with. Anna Quindlen
Health Women Men Live Threat Greatest American Public Public Health American Women Many
People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it. Anna Quindlen
Wisdom Blame People Girl She Boy Said Always Been Manage Conventional Conventional Wisdom Should
Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them? Anna Quindlen
Strength Strong Fear Will Incredible Our Ourselves Rigor Both Imperfect Clear Equal Protect Makes How Mothers Children Shortcomings Them Us Who Even Raising Raising Children
The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America. Anna Quindlen
Life Victim About Mentality America May Thing Last
I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person. Anna Quindlen
Once Comfortable Am Person Personage Being Wanted Now
There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever. Anna Quindlen
Joy World Beauty Poetry Pound Weight Forever Walt Little Whitman Premium Thing Thinks
There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat. Anna Quindlen
Life You Yourself Parents Whatever Only Takes Always Afloat Room Turn Your Choose Keep
In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat. Anna Quindlen
Time Family People Older Those Recognize Another Middle Bread Younger Sandwich Meat Older People
Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you. Anna Quindlen
Gay You Man Woman Mother Will Fall Down Baby Addict Bisexual Someday Come Real Domino Newborn Straight Theory Here
I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much. Anna Quindlen
Success Failure Someone Only Like Learned Sure Afraid Being The Only Thing Much Now Thing
I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat. Anna Quindlen
Saying Me Bible Husband First President States Would Hat Wears Silly Something Glimpse Box Female Matching Pill Go Just Being Holds Which Jane While Public Coat Even Washington United United States Her Sworn
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