Anna Quindlen Quotes

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Anna Quindlen

Profession : Journalist

Birth : July 8, 1953

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

Anna Quindlen

I am an affirmative action hire.

Anna Quindlen

I don't have to listen to the Gospel on Sunday to know the stories of the New Testament. They inform so much of what I write that they're practically like a news scrim that goes through my brain 24/7.

Anna Quindlen

When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around.

Anna Quindlen

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

Anna Quindlen