#y

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#freedom #full #i #letters #never

I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#bible #box #coat #even #female

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