Anna Quindlen
Anna Marie Quindlen (born July 8, 1952) is an American author, journalist, and opinion columnist whose New York Times column, Public and Private, won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992. She began her journalism career in 1974 as a reporter for the New York Post. Between 1977 and 1994 she held several posts at The New York Times.
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“There are obvious places in which government can narrow the chasm between haves and have-nots. One is the public schools, which have been seen as the great leveler, the authentic melting pot. That, today, is nonsense. In his scathing study of the nation’s public school system entitled ‘Savage Inequalities,’ Jonathan Kozol made manifest the truth: that we have a system that discriminates against the poor in everything from class size to curriculum.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“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 (b. 1952)
“If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)