Inspirational Quotes
by Anna Quindlen

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Index_card_top “At twenty-five I should have worn a big red A on my chest; it would have stood for ambition, an ambition so brazen and burning that it would have reduced Hester Prynne's transgression to pale pink.”
 
Anna Quindlen  (born 1953);
Journalist, Novelist
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Index_card_top “I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me. ”
 
Anna Quindlen  (born 1953);
Journalist, Novelist
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Index_card_top “Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.”
 
Anna Quindlen  (born 1953);
Journalist, Novelist
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“If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”
 
Anna Quindlen  (born 1953);
Journalist, Novelist
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