Anna Quindlen Quotes

Anna Quindlen — American Journalist born on July 08, 1953,

Anna Marie Quindlen is an American, 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 small child for the New York Post. Between 1977 and 1994 she held several posts at The New York Times... (wikipedia)

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

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.

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

Anna Quindlen Quotes

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