Quote

The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you.

Anna Quindlen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
Author
Columnist
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Anna Marie Quindlen
Life
Hasn
Accept
Accepting
Easy
Truth
Sometimes
Even
Always
Occurred

More quotes by Anna Quindlen

Image
There's some muscle group around your shoulders that seizes up during the perfection dance and doesn't let go until you are asleep, or alone. Or maybe it never really lets go at all.
Anna Quindlen
Image
If you want to write what the world is about, you have to write details...real life is in the dishes. Real life is pushing strollers up the street, folding T-shirts, the alarm clock going off early and you dropping into bed exhausted every night. That's real life.
Anna Quindlen
Image
Frankly, I'm mainly telling the story to myself. Thinking about audience is too daunting, and worst case, invites you to homogenize, to soften the hard edges of things.
Anna Quindlen
Image
If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be cheap, too.
Anna Quindlen
Image
Ask any woman how she makes it through the day, and she may mention her calendar, her to-do lists, her babysitter. But if you push her on how she really makes it through her day, she will mention her girlfriends.
Anna Quindlen
Image
Barack Obama is the kind of guy who likes to do things by inches, he's the kind of guy who likes to build consensus and compromise.
Anna Quindlen
Image
A writer is always working with whatever she's managed to store in the brainpan or puzzle out about the world.
Anna Quindlen
Image
I'll tell you the truth - I went to a women's college, Barnard, the most selective college for women in America today. If there's one thing I came out of Barnard with, because it was a women's college and a great institution of higher education, it was fearlessness.
Anna Quindlen
Image
The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.
Anna Quindlen
Image
And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that.
Anna Quindlen
Image
Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us.
Anna Quindlen
Image
The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a yearless than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.
Anna Quindlen
Image
I am an affirmative action hire.
Anna Quindlen
Image
I'm boggled by the idea of being an only child. I know nothing at all (I'm happy to say) about having had a cold and withholding mother, about being divorced. The more I've been writing novels, each novel I've written has become successively less grounded in anything approaching autobiography.
Anna Quindlen
Image
You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
Anna Quindlen
Image
the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government.
Anna Quindlen
Image
high fashion has little to do with what women wear and a lot to do with what retailers mark down later.
Anna Quindlen
Image
We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.
Anna Quindlen
Image
The New Testament has had a really powerful effect on how I write and how I live my life.
Anna Quindlen
Image
Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it.
Anna Quindlen