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Anna Quindlen Quotes

This is why I had children: to offer them a perfect dream of childhood that can fill their souls as they grow older Picture Quote #1

This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver’s seat and keeping quiet Picture Quote #1

Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They’re its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones Picture Quote #1

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself Picture Quote #1

Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance Picture Quote #1

Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first Picture Quote #1

The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them, allows for all the other great evils: racism, sexism, homophobia, violence against gay people and against women Picture Quote #1

Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn’t ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die Picture Quote #1

I feel about exercise the same way that I feel about a few other things: that there is nothing wrong with it if it is done in private by consenting adults Picture Quote #1

It is so easy to waste our lives: Our days, our hours, our minutes... it is so easy to exist instead of live Picture Quote #1

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The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed Picture Quote #1

I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh Picture Quote #1

You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life... Your entire life... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul Picture Quote #1

When men do the dishes, it’s called helping. When women do the dishes, it is called life Picture Quote #1

People have writer’s block not because they can’t write, but because they despair of writing eloquently Picture Quote #1

It often seems, looking back, that the unexpected comes to define us, the paths we didn’t see coming and may have wandered down by mistake. The older we get the more willing we are to follow those, to surprise ourselves Picture Quote #1

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Down time is where we become ourselves... a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity Picture Quote #1

These are my words; this is their world, a world in which we can wear our gender on our sleeves, unabashedly, as we go about the business of thinking out loud Picture Quote #1

Get a life. A real life. Not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house Picture Quote #1

I only really understand myself, what I’m really thinking and feelings, when I’ve talked it over with my circle of female friends. When days go by without that connection, I feel like a radio playing in an empty room Picture Quote #1

Look around at the azaleas making fuchsia star bursts in spring; look at a full moon hanging silver in a black sky on a cold night. And realize that life is glorious, and that you have no business taking it for granted Picture Quote #1

When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life Picture Quote #1

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I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions and collide. Besides, I have contempt for a game in which players have to wear so much equipment. Men play basketball in their underwear, which seems just right to me Picture Quote #1

The beginning and the end are never really the journey of discovery for me. It is the middle that remains a puzzle until well into the writing. That’s how life is most of the time, isn’t it? You know where you are and where you hope to wind up. It’s the getting there that’s challenging Picture Quote #1

While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who read too much, whatever reading too much means, of being lazy, aimless dreamers, people who need to grow up and come outside to where real life is, who think themselves superior in their separateness Picture Quote #1

Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that won’t happen. We have to teach ourselves how to make room for them, to love them, and to live, really live Picture Quote #1

Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia, racism, sexism, terrorism, bigotry of every variety and hue, because it tells us there is one right way to do things, to look, to behave, to feel, when the only right way is to feel your heart hammering inside you and to listen to what its timpani is saying Picture Quote #1

Consider the lilies of the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby’s ear. Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a terminal illness because if you do you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived Picture Quote #1

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This is why I had children: to offer them a perfect dream of childhood that can fill their souls as they grow older (Anna Quindlen Quotes) This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver’s seat and keeping quiet (Anna Quindlen Quotes) Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They’re its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones (Anna Quindlen Quotes) In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself (Anna Quindlen Quotes) Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance (Anna Quindlen Quotes) Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it (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 (Anna Quindlen Quotes) Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first (Anna Quindlen Quotes) The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them, allows for all the other great evils: racism, sexism, homophobia, violence against gay people and against women (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 (Anna Quindlen Quotes) I feel about exercise the same way that I feel about a few other things: that there is nothing wrong with it if it is done in private by consenting adults (Anna Quindlen Quotes) It is so easy to waste our lives: Our days, our hours, our minutes... it is so easy to exist instead of live (Anna Quindlen Quotes) The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed (Anna Quindlen Quotes) I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh (Anna Quindlen Quotes) You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life... Your entire life... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul (Anna Quindlen Quotes) When men do the dishes, it’s called helping. When women do the dishes, it is called life (Anna Quindlen Quotes) People have writer’s block not because they can’t write, but because they despair of writing eloquently (Anna Quindlen Quotes) It often seems, looking back, that the unexpected comes to define us, the paths we didn’t see coming and may have wandered down by mistake. The older we get the more willing we are to follow those, to surprise ourselves (Anna Quindlen Quotes) Down time is where we become ourselves... a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity (Anna Quindlen Quotes) These are my words; this is their world, a world in which we can wear our gender on our sleeves, unabashedly, as we go about the business of thinking out loud (Anna Quindlen Quotes) Get a life. A real life. Not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house (Anna Quindlen Quotes) I only really understand myself, what I’m really thinking and feelings, when I’ve talked it over with my circle of female friends. When days go by without that connection, I feel like a radio playing in an empty room (Anna Quindlen Quotes) Look around at the azaleas making fuchsia star bursts in spring; look at a full moon hanging silver in a black sky on a cold night. And realize that life is glorious, and that you have no business taking it for granted (Anna Quindlen Quotes) When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life (Anna Quindlen Quotes) I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions and collide. Besides, I have contempt for a game in which players have to wear so much equipment. Men play basketball in their underwear, which seems just right to me (Anna Quindlen Quotes) The beginning and the end are never really the journey of discovery for me. It is the middle that remains a puzzle until well into the writing. That’s how life is most of the time, isn’t it? You know where you are and where you hope to wind up. It’s the getting there that’s challenging (Anna Quindlen Quotes) While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who read too much, whatever reading too much means, of being lazy, aimless dreamers, people who need to grow up and come outside to where real life is, who think themselves superior in their separateness (Anna Quindlen Quotes) Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that won’t happen. We have to teach ourselves how to make room for them, to love them, and to live, really live (Anna Quindlen Quotes) Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia, racism, sexism, terrorism, bigotry of every variety and hue, because it tells us there is one right way to do things, to look, to behave, to feel, when the only right way is to feel your heart hammering inside you and to listen to what its timpani is saying (Anna Quindlen Quotes) Consider the lilies of the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby’s ear. Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a terminal illness because if you do you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived (Anna Quindlen Quotes)

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