Familiarity breeds content
ANNA QUINDLEN I know the difference now between dedication and infatuation. That doesn't mean I don't still get an...
ANNA QUINDLEN I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessl...
ANNA QUINDLEN It is so easty to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes...It is so easy to exist instead...
ANNA QUINDLEN It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the ...
ANNA QUINDLEN "You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ...Your entire life ...Not just the...
ANNA QUINDLEN I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consist...
ANNA QUINDLEN Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They ar...
ANNA QUINDLEN The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the w...
ANNA QUINDLEN I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype...
ANNA QUINDLEN I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part o...
ANNA QUINDLEN I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype...
ANNA QUINDLEN A finished person is a boring person.
ANNA QUINDLEN There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new...
ANNA QUINDLEN Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the...
ANNA QUINDLEN O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment ...
ANNA QUINDLEN The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by...
ANNA QUINDLEN Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother t...
ANNA QUINDLEN Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.
ANNA QUINDLEN There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are...
ANNA QUINDLEN There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn yo...
ANNA QUINDLEN Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.
ANNA QUINDLEN The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; th...
ANNA QUINDLEN London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And ...
ANNA QUINDLEN Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about ...
ANNA QUINDLEN The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their hig...
ANNA QUINDLEN America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human deve...
ANNA QUINDLEN In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I w...
ANNA QUINDLEN All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing ...
ANNA QUINDLEN Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional repre...
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...
ANNA QUINDLEN When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when ...
ANNA QUINDLEN Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as i...
ANNA QUINDLEN It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
ANNA QUINDLEN I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.
ANNA QUINDLEN Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's what I have to say. The second is only a...
ANNA QUINDLEN All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.
ANNA QUINDLEN When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message d...
ANNA QUINDLEN Voices that loud are always meant to bully. Do not be bullied. Acts of bravery don't always take pla...
ANNA QUINDLEN The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to yo...
ANNA QUINDLEN I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think interior decoratin...
ANNA QUINDLEN I came to the realization that there were certain public issues that were most usefully dealt with w...
ANNA QUINDLEN But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too bus...
ANNA QUINDLEN A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.
ANNA QUINDLEN I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating con...
ANNA QUINDLEN If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in yo...
ANNA QUINDLEN If God is watching us, as some believers suggest, as though we were a television show and God had a ...
ANNA QUINDLEN You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
ANNA QUINDLEN I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual f...
ANNA QUINDLEN All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren'...
ANNA QUINDLEN Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come ...
ANNA QUINDLEN Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be ...
ANNA QUINDLEN Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictur...
ANNA QUINDLEN Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fu...
ANNA QUINDLEN Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's s...
ANNA QUINDLEN There was a period when I believed stuff meant something. I thought that if you had matching side ch...
ANNA QUINDLEN But her smile was bleak, without light or warmth. And for the first time I thought of what it must b...
ANNA QUINDLEN "You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ...
Your entire life ...
No...
ANNA QUINDLEN Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined ...
ANNA QUINDLEN Nearly everyone I meet expresses deep sympathy about the fact that I have never married. Sometimes I...
ANNA QUINDLEN .. at a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now.
ANNA QUINDLEN If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in th...
ANNA QUINDLEN There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emerge...
ANNA QUINDLEN I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, bei...
ANNA QUINDLEN New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I'v...
ANNA QUINDLEN those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some p...
ANNA QUINDLEN I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility.
ANNA QUINDLEN Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of ...
ANNA QUINDLEN Well, we tell our kids things like 'don't gossip' and then an hour later they hear us on the phone. ...
ANNA QUINDLEN Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description
ANNA QUINDLEN I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.
ANNA QUINDLEN After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, ...
ANNA QUINDLEN How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world...
ANNA QUINDLEN Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us o...
ANNA QUINDLEN Speech is the voice of the heart.
ANNA QUINDLEN If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic...
ANNA QUINDLEN In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread...
ANNA QUINDLEN One of the greatest glories of growing older is the willingness to ask why and, getting no good answ...
ANNA QUINDLEN The biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make while doing this. I did not live in the m...
ANNA QUINDLEN There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a samp...
ANNA QUINDLEN Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ...
ANNA QUINDLEN The ultimate act of bravery does not take place on a battlefield. It takes place in your heart, when...
ANNA QUINDLEN You can tell a really wonderful quote by the fact that it's attributed to a whole raft of wits.
ANNA QUINDLEN It is the glory of London that it is always ending and beginning anew, and that a visitor, with a go...
ANNA QUINDLEN Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the ...
ANNA QUINDLEN London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes...
ANNA QUINDLEN books became the greatest purveyors of truth, and the truth shall make you free.
ANNA QUINDLEN Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see...
ANNA SEWELL My goal all along has just been to work and support myself. I've been really lucky to walk away ...
ANNA KENDRICK I think professionally I admire people and the way they've handled their careers and being in th...
ANNA SILK 'Cinderella' the cartoon scared me. I watched the bits with the mice, and the scenes with th...
ANNA KENDRICK If I don't do laundry today, I'm gonna have to buy new clothes tomorrow.
ANNA PAQUIN I'd always been extremely fascinated by the French Nuit Blanche, which is a weekend that they ha...
ANNA WINTOUR If one comes across sometimes as being cold or brusque, it's simply because I'm striving for...
ANNA WINTOUR Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still you...
ANNA LEE I was a star in England, but I've never been a star in America. Now I am.
ANNA LEE They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can ...
ANNA LEE My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.
ANNA LEE Yes, I'm a great believer in angels.
ANNA LEE Okay, I am happy with the way I look, but I have never, never, ever thought of myself as a 'pret...
ANNA KENDRICK What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few...
ANNA NEAGLE We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.
ANNA FREUD It is well within the order of things
That man should listen when his mate sings;
But the true...
ANNA WICKHAM I don't usually drink caffeine so that when I need it, it actually does something.
ANNA KENDRICK Tessa has an obsession with Target that I’ll never understand.
ANNA TODD It's ironic really, that the man who hates the world is most loved by it
ANNA TODD Just because he can't love you the way you want him to doesn't mean he does't love you with everythi...
ANNA TODD Innovation is the calling card of the future.
ANNA ESHOO I love simple foods as well as grand. Dinners that take a half-hour from skillet to plate are as imp...
ANNA PUMP I've been acting since second grade, and I just remember when I first moved to New York and I wa...
ANNA CAMP I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.
ANNA SUI What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feelin...
ANNA PAVLOVA People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start t...
ANNA FRIEL It is well within the order of things that man should listen when his mate sings; but the true male ...
ANNA WICKHAM I've never felt like I've exactly traded on my looks. When I was a teenager, I was an ultra ...
ANNA KENDRICK The world believes all blondes are stupid and brunettes are smarter. Well, I disagree.
ANNA KOURNIKOVA Onze aarde hangt niet voor niets scheef. Het is een ironische onderstreping van al het zijn op haar ...
ANNA JAE Well it's hard to bracket it like that because everyone always thinks you either go to America a...
ANNA FRIEL If a wicked rake doesn’t kiss a young lady when they’re alone in a moonlit rose garden, might it...
ANNA BRADLEY I desire Virtue, though I love her not-
I have no faith in her when she is got:
I fear that sh...
ANNA WICKHAM No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.
ANNA PAVLOVA It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer. Everything fades: the s...
ANNA GODBERSEN Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that m...
ANNA MAGNANI I want to do stage again, because there just aren't words for how great it is. People say that a...
ANNA KENDRICK A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.
ANNA JAMESON What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are
ANNA JAMESON Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never
ANNA JAMESON Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, a...
ANNA JAMESON The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself
ANNA JAMESON Trust in my affection for you.
ANNA JAMESON Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth
ANNA JAMESON Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
ANNA JAMESON I just got on Twitter because there was some MTV film blog that quoted me on something really innocu...
ANNA KENDRICK Love is all right, as things go, but lovers can be a terrible waste of a girl's time.
ANNA GODBERSEN Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
ANNA WINTOUR If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.
ANNA AKHMATOVA That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-cit...
ANNA GODBERSEN No, I do not need an outrageous quest to prove my worth. I deserve happiness -- happiness on my own ...
ANNA BAYES My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in...
ANNA SEWELL All at once I feel desperate, outraged. Why am I alone doomed to spend nights of torment, with an un...
ANNA KAVAN It is good people who make good places.
ANNA SEWELL The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerabilit...
ANNA FORD Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
ANNA FREUD Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.
ANNA JAMESON In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually en...
ANNA JAMESON All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and j...
ANNA JAMESON I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is ther...
ANNA FREUD Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.
ANNA FORD Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.
ANNA CHENNAULT Though I am an old horse, and have seen and heard a great deal, I never yet could make out why men a...
ANNA SEWELL What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feel...
ANNA PAVLOVA Order is a lovely thing; on disarray it lays its wing, teaching simplicity to sing.
ANNA BRANCH The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become m...
ANNA GODBERSEN All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and...
ANNA JAMESON I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is the...
ANNA FREUD Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a ...
ANNA LAPPE We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not s...
ANNA SEWELL While I wouldn't wish being teased on anyone, I think it eventually leads to a kind of solidarit...
ANNA KENDRICK It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotion...
ANNA FREUD I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They ca...
ANNA FRIEL I'm Anna Paquin. I'm bisexual and I give a damn.
ANNA PAQUIN I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as...
ANNA PAQUIN In order to satirize adequately, I think you need to bring people down to Earth and be like, 'Ye...
ANNA CHLUMSKY I was very adept at acquiring languages.
ANNA HELD When moms and dads put their kids in acting class, good luck. Because you're just filling them w...
ANNA CHLUMSKY To me, accessorizing is the most fun part of an outfit. While I don't think you can't rely o...
ANNA KENDRICK I'm just a normal person. It's not like I come home and think about opera. My thoughts are a...
ANNA NETREBKO I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up ...
ANNA WINTOUR There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.
ANNA HELD If I get married, I think I'd pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman ...
ANNA HELD Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.
ANNA HELD No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to the...
ANNA HELD For a married woman to flirt is a sin.
ANNA HELD How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jum...
ANNA HELD It is quite lovely being single, and I much prefer it.
ANNA HELD My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.
ANNA HELD No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.
ANNA HELD People look at me and look, but I do not care.
ANNA HELD The more they applaud, the bigger your salary will be.
ANNA HELD I do not say anything from jealousy.
ANNA HELD I know I am very beautiful.
ANNA HELD Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, ...
ANNA HELD You'll never catch a man if you let him think you are too smart.
ANNA HELD Charm them with your presence as soon as they look at you.
ANNA HELD We must go fast, because the race is against time.
ANNA HELD Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, 'It is not good for ...
ANNA HELD Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.
ANNA HELD Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.
ANNA HELD To put on a corset properly is as much of an art as to make a corset properly.
ANNA HELD It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once.
ANNA HELD One does not re-light a dead cigarette.
ANNA HELD I think the eyes flirt most. There are so many ways to use them.
ANNA HELD A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.
ANNA HELD When our bodies are sick and people extend their sympathy, bring us soup, offer up solutions. When o...
ANNA AKANA My father is an acupuncturist, and the way he practices is very free. For me, he's like an artis...
ANNA MOUGLALIS Developed countries and advanced developing countries must open their markets for products from the ...
ANNA LINDH We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biologica...
ANNA LINDH Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon sh...
ANNA LEE Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance.
ANNA LINDH A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.
ANNA HELD