The New Testament has had a really powerful effect on how I write and how I live my life. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“...I had enough of real life everyday to last me forever.” — Anna Quindlen Everyday Copy Share Image
We almost manage to forget that things happen that we don't anticipate. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us. — Anna Quindlen Death Copy Share Image
knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us. — Anna Quindlen Death Copy Share Image
Sometimes we don't see out of our peripheral vision what's coming right around the corner. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a… — Anna Quindlen Carefree Copy Share Image
“I don't even have a dog. I tell people I'm allergic so they won't think less of me. Instead I have a… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and one of the things I like to say is that one of the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity. — Anna Quindlen Age Copy Share Image
Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs… — Anna Quindlen Board games 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 Time 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 Boredom 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 Grief and loss Copy Share Image
There may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an… — Anna Quindlen Ability Copy Share Image
God bless the physician who warms the speculum or holds your hand and looks into your eyes. Perhaps one subtext of the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
an the president bring out the voters who were so enthusiastic about him in 2008 and seem a little disenchanted now? Can… — Anna Quindlen Disenchanted Copy Share Image
I'm always keeping an eye on the court. Also, when the members of Congress came to his office during the budget debacle… — Anna Quindlen Budgets Copy Share Image
Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous,… — Anna Quindlen Advice Copy Share Image
When hot dogs like Mr. D'Amato or the Republican apologist Roger Ailes say that Whitewater is worse than Watergate, it's because they're… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for… — Anna Quindlen Compromise Copy Share Image
Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of… — Anna Quindlen American writer 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 Biggest mistake 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
There are obvious places in which government can narrow the chasm between haves and have-nots. One is the public schools, which have… — 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 Friendship Copy Share Image
Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried… — Anna Quindlen Avon Copy Share Image
“It had turned out that climbing a tree was more difficult than it looked. It was harder than warrior pose in yoga,… — Anna Quindlen Climbing Copy Share Image
Being accused of making money by selling sex in Hollywood, home of the casting couch and the gratuitous nude scene, is so… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time. — Anna Quindlen Bigotry Copy Share Image
“Out lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.” — Anna Quindlen Happenstance Copy Share Image
