Home / Quotes / Quote by Anna Quindlen

Quote by Anna Quindlen

“Adolescence is a tough time for parent and child alike. It is a time between: between childhood and maturity, between parental protection and personal responsibility, between life stage- managed by grown-ups and life privately held.”

Quote by Anna Quindlen

Book:Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

Work

Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

This book delves into the complexities of human experience, examining how personal thoughts and actions intersect with broader political and societal contexts. more

Author

Anna Quindlen, born on July 8, 1952, is a renowned American author known for her insightful social commentary and delicate portrayal of everyday life. Her writing career began as a newspaper editor, later transitioning to novel writing, which has been well-received by readers. more

You May Also Like

“No one thinks anything silly is suitable when they are an adolescent. Such an enormous share of their own behavior is silly that they lose all proper perspective on silliness, like a baker who is nauseated by the sight of his own eclairs. This provides another good argument for the emerging theory that the best use of cryogenics is to freeze all human beings when they are between the ages of twelve and nineteen.”

Thinking Humans Use Age Loses Human Beings Share Theory Perspective Behavior Argument Sight Silly Enormous Twelve Emerging Freeze Suitable Nineteen Bakers Silliness Eclairs

Author:Anna Quindlen

“For most of my life the only ceremonies I've been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like weddings.”

Book:Living Out Loud

Source: Living Out Loud

“It makes me angry to think that . . . female sanitation workers will spend their days doing a job most of their co-workers think they can't handle, and then they will go home and do another job most of their co-workers don't want.”

Thinking Want Home Jobs Female Angry Workers Handle Co Worker Sanitation Make Me Angry

Book:Living Out Loud

Source: Living Out Loud

“The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.”

God Law Religion Faithful Founders

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“Anyone who believes cannot experience miracles. By day one does not see any stars. Anyone who does miracles says: I cannot let goof the earth.”

Believe Doe Earth Religion Stars Letting Go Miracle Goofs

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you. To what indifference people may come, to what profound conviction of having lost the right track forever.”

People May Lost Courage Forever Adversity Profound Track Conviction Indifference Antagonist Right Track

Author:Franz Kafka

“For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations.”

World Way Doe Used Language Perception Concerned Relation Property Phenomenal Corresponding

Book:Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka

Source: Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka

“Anyone who renounces the world must love all men, for he renounces their world too. He thus begins to have some inkling of the true nature of man, which cannot but be loved, always assuming that one is its peer.”

Men World History Assuming Peers True Nature Renounce Nature Of Man

Author:Franz Kafka

“Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else.”

Way Art Light Truth Faces Artist Art Is

Book:Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod

Source: Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod

“The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of this life are not its own, but our self-torment because of that fear.”

Life Self Fear Higher Delight This Life Torture Torment Ascent

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks