Quotes by Anna Quindlen

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Author and journalist · American

American author and journalist

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“For so long I'd thought about myself as a girl who'd walked away from her mother's life that it would be a long time before I would start to think about the other part of the bargain, how easily sh...”
— Anna Quindlen
growing-up mothers-and-daughters

“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.”
— Anna Quindlen
parents

“A loose end - that's what we woman call it, when we are overwhelmed by the care of small children, the weight of small tasks, a life in which we fall into bed at the end of the day exhausted from b...”
— Anna Quindlen
motherhood

“there is still a kind of unique loneliness to child rearing for women. We so often do it in isolation. Add to the fact that in our competitive, perfectionist culture, in which the price woman are r...”
— Anna Quindlen
motherhood

“I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility.”
— Anna Quindlen
cats

“My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room and I realized that out of a sea of infinite possibilities it had come down to this: a specific person born on the hottest day of...”
— Anna Quindlen
happiness

“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.”
— Anna Quindlen
Marriage People Two People