If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
"Anna Marie Quindlen" is an American author, journalist, and opinion columnist whose The New York Times/New York Times column, Public and Private, won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992 Pulitzer Prize/1992. She began her journalism career in 1974 as a reporter for the New York Post. Between 1977 and 1994 she held several posts at The New York Times.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous journalists! More Anna Quindlen on Wikipedia.I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.
Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?
The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you.
The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.
Women are the glue that hold our day-to-day world together.
There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word 'banal' sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say 'underedited,' I say 'derivative.' The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews.
I came to the realization that there were certain public issues that were most usefully dealt with within some sort of framework of at least my private beliefs, if not my private life.
You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
A finished person is a boring person.
"You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ...Your entire life ...Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart.Not just your bank account, but your soul."~ Anna Quindlen.
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women? In some ways we're as committed to the old madonna-whore dichotomy as ever. And the madonna stays home, feeding the baby behind the blinds, a vestige of those days when for a lady to venture out was a flagrant act of public exposure.
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy.
I know the difference now between dedication and infatuation. That doesn't mean I don't still get an enormous kick out of infatuation;: the exciting ephemera, the punch in the stomach, the adrenaline to the heart.
When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.
But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
Familiarity breeds content.
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.
Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first.
A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.
O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!
I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.
It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for their daughters, and their sons, too. It's the way we talk about and treat one another. It's who makes the money and who makes the compromises and who makes the dinner. It's a state of mind. It's the way we live now.
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