We take our vitamins, we go to exercise class, we put on our seat belts. And then something blindsides us and gives… — 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 Book Copy Share Image
I sort of feel like it comes around again. That when you get to a certain age, when you've lived enough and… — Anna Quindlen Age Copy Share Image
An election marks the end of the affair; it puts paid to the seduction of the many by the few. Pretty words,… — Anna Quindlen Affair Copy Share Image
“And then sometimes we become one of those people and are amazed, not by our own strength but by that indomitable ability… — Anna Quindlen Adversity Copy Share Image
The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
There are a million moving parts to raising kids, and you can't always anticipate them all, especially when they are teenagers and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“I mark my years or parenting by the people who stepped in and forced me to abandon my inclination to meddle, micromanage,… — Anna Quindlen Children Copy Share Image
While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that… — Anna Quindlen Culture Copy Share Image
I never think about issues when I'm working on a novel. Issues are things that happen to people in sufficient numbers to… — Anna Quindlen Attention Copy Share Image
My sister is a public school teacher. She makes far far less money than I do, and gets almost no public attention… — Anna Quindlen Attention Copy Share Image
A week in the hospital she had told us. A hysterectomy, she had said. It had seemed unremarkable to me in a… — 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
So I do think sometimes the political mechanism is completely disconnected from the people. However, what I will say is that history… — Anna Quindlen Breathless Copy Share Image
The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them,… — Anna Quindlen Brother Copy Share Image
“Nothing important, or meaningful, or beautiful, or interesting, or great ever came out of imitations. The thing that is really hard and… — Anna Quindlen Becoming yourself Copy Share Image
I had that feeling you have when you're watching a sad movie, sobbing at the heartbreak you are feeling at the same… — Anna Quindlen Cup of tea Copy Share Image
I do think that people who are now in their sixties and their seventies are living a different kind of life than… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
For many years, despite what I thought were really punitive decisions about women in the church, I stayed and stayed and stayed.… — Anna Quindlen Catholic Copy Share Image
If I had to guess what the new Etch-A-Sketch picture is going to be like, it's going to be considerably less to… — 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 Adolescence Copy Share Image
the more humdrum aspects of life do not make for gripping reading. To render them compelling, a writer must describe the universal… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Anyone who has breast-fed knows two things for sure: The baby wants to be fed at the most inopportune times, in the… — Anna Quindlen Baby Copy Share Image
“It sounded so promising. As if this would be the day. The day to ride a bike without training wheels. To make… — Anna Quindlen Fitness Copy Share Image
I don't understand how people learn to live in the world if they haven't had siblings. Everything I learned about negotiation, territoriality,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think the gift of my mother's death, if anything so terrible can be said to have an upside to it, is… — Anna Quindlen Book Copy Share Image
I really feel like if you can get past your fear, if you can say, "Uh-uh, I'm afraid to do that and… — Anna Quindlen Fear Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to imagine yourself in the future. It’s why people do so many dumb things, because they’re mired in the moment.… — Anna Quindlen Future Copy Share Image
His [O.J. Simpson's] supporters lined the freeway to cheer him on Friday and commentators talked about his tragedy. Did those people see… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job,… — Anna Quindlen Alive 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 Age 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 Confusion Copy Share Image
I'm not making light of prayers here, but of so-called school prayer, which bears as much resemblance to real spiritual experienceas that… — Anna Quindlen Astronaut Copy Share Image
When I quit The New York Times to be a fulltime mother, the voices of the world said I was nuts…But if… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“As I looked at [my future husband] I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the… — Anna Quindlen Future husband Copy Share Image
Parents have railed against shelters near schools, but no one has made any connection between the crazed consumerism of our kids and… — Anna Quindlen Cold Copy Share Image
It is hard to find someone who will give your children a feeling of security while it lasts and not wound them… — Anna Quindlen Child Copy Share Image
People who are knowledgeable about poetry sometimes discuss it in that knowing, rather hateful way in which oenophiles talk about wine: robust,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
There are those of us who believe that under certain conditions the cruelest thing you can do to people you love is… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE WOMEN THAT HAVE MADE A REAL DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD THROUGHOUT HISTORY, WHAT THEY’VE DONE HAS ALMOST… — Anna Quindlen Differences Copy Share Image
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