Anna Quindlen People Quotations

All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.

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.

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.

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.

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.

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.

what we call things matters. ... The words we use, and how we perceive those words, reflect how we value, or devalue, people, places, and things.

Women writers of all people should know better than to pigeonhole women, put them in little groups, the smart one, the sweet one.

People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently.

those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers...

Reading is another thing that has made me more human by exposing me to worlds I might never have entered and people I might never meet.

Kids and violent TV, violent TV and violence, violence and kids. The only people missing from this discussion are the parents. Where are we? Gone. Abdicated.

Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it.

Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people just like me.

Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it.

... It was the idea of facing a future skimming the surface of life, winging my way in and out of other people's crises, confusions, and passages, engaging them enough to get the story, but never enough to be indelibly touched by what I had seen or heard.

I don't understand how people learn to live in the world if they haven't had siblings. Everything I learned about negotiation, territoriality, coexistence, dislike, inbred differences and love despite knowledge I learned from my four younger siblings ...

I do think that people who are now in their sixties and their seventies are living a different kind of life than their grandparents led, even in these tough times. A lot of them are more active, a lot of them are still working, which was not the case when our grandparents were in their sixties.

Now, a lot of people are challenged by the fact that a record number of people in their sixties have living parents, and a record number of people in their sixties have kids who may still depend upon them.

The problem with freedom is that you just can't go back. Once people see what it means to be free people, you can't go back. So they're going to keep nattering on about this and that, and maybe they'll make another stab at de-funding the fabulous Planned Parenthood or something of the sort. To my mind, it's just not going to work.

an the president bring out the voters who were so enthusiastic about him in 2008 and seem a little disenchanted now? Can he bring out young people? Can he bring out Latinos? Can he bring out those white suburban moms?