“For the young the days go fast and the years go slow; for the old the days go slow and the years… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience. — Anna Quindlen Daughter Copy Share Image
“Words, words. They mean nothing, less than nothing. I know.” — Anna Quindlen Language Copy Share Image
“The essential London scenes is a row of low identical houses set around a square.” — Anna Quindlen Cities Copy Share Image
The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions. — Anna Quindlen Delusion Copy Share Image
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more… — Anna Quindlen Food Copy Share Image
The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that courage is the thing that you need more than any other thing. It's fear that cripples us. It's… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Nearly everyone I meet expresses deep sympathy about the fact that I have never married. Sometimes I wonder why.” — Anna Quindlen Being single Copy Share Image
I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show… — Anna Quindlen Friend Copy Share Image
“Oh, the loneliness, the loneliness. It lived inside her now like an illness, like a flu that could be ignored and then… — Anna Quindlen Loneliness Copy Share Image
“Once again she had the odd sense that she had been missing something, seeing the world flat when everything was rounded.” — Anna Quindlen Heart 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
“Then when she really thought about it she realized she’d been becoming different people for as long as she could remember but… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life… — Anna Quindlen Attention 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
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
“But I’ve finally recognized my body for what it is: a personality delivery system, designed expressly to carry my character from place… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Sometimes change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar… — Anna Quindlen Change Copy Share Image
That is supposed to be the rallying cry of women in the age of AIDS: no condom, no sex. But the dirty… — Anna Quindlen Age Copy Share Image
“Other people used photographs as a way to keep close to the events of their lives; she had used them as a… — Anna Quindlen Art Copy Share Image
“I remember the first year after my second child was born, what I can remember of it at all, as a year… — Anna Quindlen Children 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
“Set aside the old traditional notion of female as nurturer and male as leader; set aside, too, the new traditional notion of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“I read and reread and recommended and rarely rejected, became one of those readers who will read trashy stories as long as… — Anna Quindlen Books 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 Biggest mistake Copy Share Image
The dark aftermath of the frontier, of the vast promise of possibility this country first offered, is an inflated sense of American… — Anna Quindlen Aftermath Copy Share Image
“I think that the people I know now believe I went home to take care of my mother because I loved her.… — Anna Quindlen Parenting Copy Share Image
