Anna Quindlen Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

Anna Quindlen quotes and sayings page 5 (71 year old journalist). These are the last 8 out of 48 quotes we have for her.

“If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.”

“I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.”

“When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around.”

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

“But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated.”

“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.”

“The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?”

“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.”