Anna Quindlen Quotes

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

Learn what you are and be such.

Your life is meant for you to understand and process, not to make anyone else happy.

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me.

There's too much judgment out there. Really what we need to be doing is just all of us finding our own paths towards living the best lives we can live as clearly and boldly in accordance with our own personal values. And that's what I'm trying to do.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.

Don't look at someone else and want to be them. Search within yourself and find out who you are and be someone positive.

I am an open book, and I'm fine being me: I'm not a perfect person.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

I've got to where I've always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I've learned not to care what other people think. It's happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.

It just gets easier in that you become more you in the process.

Always be yourself... unless you suck.

I think when I was younger, I strived for perfection. And now I strive for my imperfections because I think they're more interesting.