{SCA} Anna Marie Quindlen (born July 8, 1952) is an American author, journalist and opinion columnist whose New York Times column, Public and Private, won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992.
She began her journalism career in 1974 as a reporter for the New York Post.
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1. Anna Quindlen
Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.
2. Anna Quindlen
There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.
3. Anna Quindlen
The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.
4. Anna Quindlen
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
5. Anna Quindlen
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?
6. Anna Quindlen
The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.
7. Anna Quindlen
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.
8. Anna Quindlen
People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can’t manage it.
9. Anna Quindlen
New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I’ve discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.
10. Anna Quindlen
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.
11. Anna Quindlen
In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.
12. Anna Quindlen
Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.
13. Anna Quindlen
If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.
14. Anna Quindlen
If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn’t have invented The New York Review of Books.
15. Anna Quindlen
Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.
16. Anna Quindlen
I’m sure not afraid of success and I’ve learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I’m afraid of now is of being someone I don’t like much.
17. Anna Quindlen
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
18. Anna Quindlen
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.
19. Anna Quindlen
I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.
20. Anna Quindlen
Here is the real domino theory – gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.
21. Anna Quindlen
America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.
22. Anna Quindlen
All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.