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
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
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
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
“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 like to say that my mother had a very ordinary life. From the outside it didn't look like there was anything… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Writing for UrbanMoms has awarded me a multitude of amazing opportunities. I have traveled to new places; alone and with my family.… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
On the other hand, I think that Governor Romney has to worry that his turnout is going to be low, that he… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
You realize that these accidental decisions you make about changing jobs, about moving into an apartment where you make new friends and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I wondered why I hadn't loved that day more, why I hadn't savored every bit of it...why I hadn't known how good… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“[B]oth my husband and I are the eldest in largish families and both of us had childhoods punctuated by pregnancies, the weeklong… — Anna Quindlen Childhood Copy Share Image
I know that it's very dispiriting for people in their twenties, who expected to graduate from college, get their own apartments, get… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Fifty years ago, teachers said their top discipline problems were talking, chewing gum, making noise, and running in the halls. The current… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If I waited long enough and said, "Okay, so what you're saying is you liked your life a lot better when you… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Jail sentences have many functions, but one is surely to send a message about what our society abhors and what it values.… — Anna Quindlen Abuse Copy Share Image
If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe… — Anna Quindlen Children Copy Share Image
Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The problem with freedom is that you just can't go back. Once people see what it means to be free people, you… — Anna Quindlen Fabulous Copy Share Image
“She is not what I envied in high school, the popular girl. She is something I'm not even sure existed then, the… — Anna Quindlen Girl Copy Share Image
My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room, and I realized that out of a… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I haven't seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When members of the arts community… — Anna Quindlen Art 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
Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good… — Anna Quindlen Ambitious Copy Share Image
“Falling apart is curling up into a fetal position and staying in bed for a week. What you were doing is having… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I learned that if I ever claim sexual harassment, I will be confronted with every bozo I once dated, every women I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“People froze you in place, Rebecca sometimes thought, trudging through the woods. More important, you froze yourself, often into a person in… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“I haven't lost my faith, but I've lost my religion. I still believe in something so deeply. ... I've never really gotten… — Anna Quindlen Faith Copy Share Image
If you want to write what the world is about, you have to write details...real life is in the dishes. Real life… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about… — 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
“Whenever one of you guys says people deal with bad stuff in their own way, it means you don't deal with it… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think what saved me, as a writer, is that there are really two breaking points in my life. One was when… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours… — Anna Quindlen Book Copy Share Image
I'm writing this memoir from the perspective of somebody who's prosperous and has means. Having said that, one of the things that… — Anna Quindlen End of life Copy Share Image
What had I expected of the first child? Everything. Rocket scientist. Neurosurgeon. Designated hitter. We talked wisely at cocktail parties about the… — Anna Quindlen Children Copy Share Image
“The ultimate act of bravery does not take place on a battlefield. It takes place in your heart, when you have the… — Anna Quindlen Bravery Copy Share Image
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