99 points which quotation most accurately explains anna quindlen’s purpose for writing “a quilt of a country”? “other countries with such divisions have in fact divided into new nations with new names, but not this one, impossibly interwoven even in its hostilities.“ “and there is a grudging fairness among the citizens of the united states that eventually leads most to admit that,…the new immigrants are not so different from our own parents or grandparents.” “one of the things that it stands for is this vexing notion that a great nation can consist entirely of refugees from other nations, that people of different, even warring religions and cultures can live, if not side by side, then on either side of the country’s chester avenues.” “once these disparate parts were held together by a common enemy, by the fault lines of world wars and the electrified fence of communism.”