Top 48 Quotes by 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.

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

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

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.

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.

A finished person is a boring person.

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.

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.

I am an affirmative action hire.

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.