If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be cheap, too. — Anna Quindlen Birth Copy Share Image
“There are only two ways, really, to become a writer. One is to write. The other is to read.” — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I do think there's some aspect of being a novelist that is a little crazy making. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The difference between government and leadership is that leadership has a soul. — Anna Quindlen Differences Copy Share Image
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. — Anna Quindlen Book Copy Share Image
I think there are some stories that need to be told by a specific person as opposed to in the third person. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I'm going to live long enough to live in an America that will assume universal health care is a basic right. That… — Anna Quindlen America Copy Share Image
The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked. — Anna Quindlen Abuse Copy Share Image
“It's a funny thing, hope. It's not like love, or fear, or hate. It's a feeling you don't really know you had… — Anna Quindlen Fear Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is the kind of guy who likes to do things by inches, he's the kind of guy who likes to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Wow, so much of the way I've transacted my life... so much of the results that I'm happy about are because of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The women of my mother's generation had, in the main, only one decision to make about their lives: who they would marry.… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Four A.M. and the darkness had a quality of inexorability and menace as though it would never lift, as though, without anyone… — Anna Quindlen Darkness Copy Share Image
I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as… — Anna Quindlen Female Copy Share Image
Reporters are not paid to operate in retrospect. Because when news begins to solidify into current events and finally harden intohistory, it… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I do get a sense that there's a huge disconnect between the political powers and what's really happening, so right-wing conservatives can… — Anna Quindlen America Copy Share Image
So carry your courage in an easily accessible place, the way you do your cellphone or your wallet. You may still falter… — Anna Quindlen Career Copy Share Image
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who… — Anna Quindlen Beach Copy Share Image
I'm just remembering myself at 22 or 23. I was all engine and no steering. (Laughter) I had the wheels but I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Our parents are never people to us, never, they're always traits, Achilles' heels, dim nightmares, vocal tics, bad noses, hot tears, all… — Anna Quindlen Hot tea Copy Share Image
“Someday, sometime, you will be sitting somewhere. A berm overlooking a pond in Vermont. The lip of the Grand Canyon at sunset.… — Anna Quindlen Black hole Copy Share Image
“valley? That should be interesting for you.” “I haven’t decided what I’m doing yet.” “I’d be happy to help,” Mr. Bally said.… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think at every moment in the last probably 100 years, when the institutional church had the opportunity to do the right… — Anna Quindlen Church Copy Share Image
[After my mother died, I had a feeling that was] not unlike the homesickness that always filled me for the first few… — Anna Quindlen Children Copy Share Image
“The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make. … I did not live in… — Anna Quindlen Biggest mistake Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest glories of growing older is the willingness to ask why and, getting no good answer, deciding to follow… — Anna Quindlen Conventional wisdom 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
When men do the dishes, it's called helping. When women do the dishes, it is called life. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before. — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. — Anna Quindlen Books for kids Copy Share Image
“...there is a piece of me missing so big that the pain doubles me over, clawing at my gut...” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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