The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed, — Anna Quindlen Animal Copy Share Image
Maybe crazy is just the word we use for feelings that will not be contained. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Get a life. A real life. Not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
When you really want to say no, say no. You can't do everything - or at least not well. — Anna Quindlen Habit Copy Share Image
“stayed because I thought things would get better, or at least not worse.” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think we now know the limits also of intelligence and rhetoric. — Anna Quindlen Intelligence Copy Share Image
“books became the greatest purveyors of truth, and the truth shall make you free.” — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
New York is a city where it's particularly hard to be poor, not only because everything costs twice as much as it… — Anna Quindlen Affluence Copy Share Image
These are my words; this is their world, a world in which we can wear our gender on our sleeves, unabashedly, as… — Anna Quindlen Business Copy Share Image
“There is so much obligatory generosity to being a good mother, a good wife, a good friend. Solitude is an acceptable form… — Anna Quindlen Friendship Copy Share Image
“Just remember that sometimes you drift into things, and then you can't get out of them. Not to decide is to decide.” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character… — Anna Quindlen Character Copy Share Image
Now, a lot of people are challenged by the fact that a record number of people in their sixties have living parents,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict… — Anna Quindlen America Copy Share Image
Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential… — Anna Quindlen Addiction Copy Share Image
For most of my adult life, I have been an emotional hit-and- run driver--that is, a reporter. I made people like me,… — Anna Quindlen Adult life Copy Share Image
Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off… — Anna Quindlen Age Copy Share Image
The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a yearless… — Anna Quindlen Absence Copy Share Image
With reference to the younger generation..."If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not to go… — Anna Quindlen Aging Copy Share Image
Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and… — Anna Quindlen Being a parent Copy Share Image
I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that… — Anna Quindlen Care Copy Share Image
Predictions that unit cohesion could not survive honesty about sexual orientation were simply wrong. What does threaten morale arethe prolonged investigations, the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
being a parent is not transaction ... we do not get what we give. It is the ultimate pay-it-forward endeavor: we are… — Anna Quindlen Being a parent Copy Share Image
The best thing about Sassy Seats is that grandmothers cannot figure out how they work and are in constant fear of the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
What usually happens is that when I'm nearing the end of one novel a vague idea about what I want to do… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“One day she had been out walking and she had wondered whether she had become a different person in the last year,…… — 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 Friendship Copy Share Image
Having children can smooth the relationship, too. Mother and daughter are now equals. That is hard to imagine, even harder to accept,… — 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 Real woman Copy Share Image
“The rituals surrounding vacations among Manhattan's wealthiest and best-connected citizens are strange and specific. By vacations I don't mean country houses, which… — Anna Quindlen Ebb and flow Copy Share Image
“The thing about old friends is not that they love you, but that they know you. They remember that disastrous New Year's… — Anna Quindlen Aging Copy Share Image
That's really what I want in a leader; I want somebody who's really, really smart. — Anna Quindlen Intelligence Copy Share Image
You want to have fun with your kids, and no one has fun with someone who runs roughshod. — Anna Quindlen Fun Copy Share Image
In life, the classroom is everywhere. The exam comes at the very end. — Anna Quindlen Classroom Copy Share Image
You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are. — Anna Quindlen Design Copy Share Image
There's something undeniable about the posture of a person trying not to acknowledge your existance — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“She wants to be someone else, somewhere else, and I can't blame her.” — 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 Future Copy Share Image
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