Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“I thought I had a handle on my future. But the future, it turns out, is not a tote bag.” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you say a word so many times that it loses its meaning...” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Now the baby boomers, i.e., us, are getting older, and were suddenly discovering that there are great things about getting older. You… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Maybe when you were a kid you were so unsure of yourself that every school year was a time of reinvention; maybe… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Down time is where we become ourselves... a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“When you look back on your life there are always times that you remember as the hard times, even if they're the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Your hair isn't quite right and maybe you're a size bigger than you should be and on and on and on. I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“I'm fine," she said. But her smile was bleak, without light or warmth. And for the first time I thought of what… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If we really feel like we're comfortable in our own skins now, we have a longer period of time to live out… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around, and nearly every book represents what my son's third grade teacher refers… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
You realize that especially when you're writing a book like this, looking back on your life, that there's just such a depth… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
People ask me all the time if I'm from a family of writers. The literal short answer is no, but my father… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The closest thing to an outline is, because my memory is so bad now, if something occurs to me that I think… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“to a surprising conclusion about this moment in our lives. No, it’s not that there are weird freckly spots on the back… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“How many times had she heard women in New York - maybe women everywhere, for all she knew - speak lyrically of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“The biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make while doing this. I did not live in the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“One of the most important parts of tending our friendships is working our way, over time, into the kind of friendships that… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“How many times in the past three months have I been reminded of Ruby's two selves, the careful courteous young woman who… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make. … I did not live in… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think at every moment in the last probably 100 years, when the institutional church had the opportunity to do the right… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Everything in all the books I once pored over is finished for me now. Penelope Leach. T. Berry Brazelton. Dr. Spock. The… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“You make concessions when you're married a long time that you don't believe you'll ever make when you're beginning. You say to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I go online all the time, I just don't read about myself. I read a fashion website called Go Fug Yourself. I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
By the time you kill and mount what you catch, it has lost that very thing that made it worth having. I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
... It was the idea of facing a future skimming the surface of life, winging my way in and out of other… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a tough time for parent and child alike. It is a time between: between childhood and maturity, between parental protection… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“it is the only time I can rest without sleeping, think without deciding, speak and hear my own voice. It is the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Maybe someday it will seem quaint that, during a time of plague, some of the parents of the 1990s wanted to deny… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share
Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share
Sometimes change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar that rose… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share
You teach your 16-year-old with your heart in your mouth to be a good driver and none of that makes any difference when some… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share
Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within it, at… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share
“I’ve finally recognized my body for what it is: a personality-delivery system, designed expressly to carry my character from place to place, now and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share
“In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been madamed once,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share
“Yet there was always in me, even when I was very small, the sense that I ought to be somewhere else. And wander I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share
Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours pleasant to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share
![“The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make. … I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the…” quote by Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/237/anna-quindlen-467_biggest-mistake_the-biggest-mistake-i-made-as-a-parent-i_2065053.jpg)
