#w

I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#being #failure #i #learned #like

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

— Anna Quindlen

#books #god #had #harvard #invented

If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#being #children #coming #could #fit

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. ↗

— Quintilian

#inevitable #wisest #yield

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. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#bread #family #meat #middle #older

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#bit #city #consists #discovered #finally

I think everyone should own six guns, even though I don't own any. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#even #everyone #guns #i #i think

Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#beginning #came #child #conventional #cubism

Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you're tired of hearing about us, you should try being one of us. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#america #being #between #born #hearing

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. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#clearest #explanation #failure #female #incompatible