Top 48 Quotes by Anna Quindlen

And I don't have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It's almost as if I absorbed completely what mattered most to me, and the rest could go.

You want to have fun with your kids, and no one has fun with someone who runs roughshod.

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

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.

A finished person is a boring person.

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.

Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you're tired of hearing about us, you should try being one of us.

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.

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.