If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.
More Quotes from Anna Quindlen:
The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.Anna Quindlen
If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.
Anna Quindlen
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
People who are knowledgeable about poetry sometimes discuss it in that knowing, rather hateful way in which oenophiles talk about wine robust, delicate, muscular. This has nothing to do with how most of us experience it, the heart coming around the corner and unexpectedly running into the mind. Of all the words that have stuck to the ribs of my soul, poetry has been the most filling.
Anna Quindlen
I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.
Anna Quindlen
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.
Anna Quindlen
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Keywords: eludeRemember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it; they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic.
Don Young
Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.
Scott McNealy
Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
Steven Wright