Anna Quindlen Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“A finished person is a boring person.”

“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.”

“If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy.”

“If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.”

“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.”

“If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.”

“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.”

“I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.”

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

“I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.”