“reading has as many functions as the human body, and... not all of them are cerebral.” — 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
“She wants to be someone else, somewhere else, and I can't blame her.” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have. — Anna Quindlen Aspiration Copy Share Image
“There are ways and ways of dying, and some of them leave you walking around.” — Anna Quindlen Death Copy Share Image
Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If we really feel like we're comfortable in our own skins now, we have a longer period of time to live out… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I really feel like I'm a liberal because I'm a Catholic, because I took the words of the New Testament to heart. — Anna Quindlen Catholic Copy Share Image
There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“It was a kind of circular thing: to be the kind of person who would have taken Faith in, he had to… — Anna Quindlen Kind person Copy Share Image
Socialized medicine, some still cry, but it's long been socialized, with those covered paying for those who are underinsured. American medicine is… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“The women I know who are happiest today are the ones who have close female friends. Maybe that’s true of men, too,… — Anna Quindlen Female friends Copy Share Image
I think that after a while you realize that your husband can't be all things to you and certainly you don't want… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“It's odd when I think of the arc of my life, from child to young woman to aging adult. First I was… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
Sure smokers have made personal choices. And they pay for those choices every day, whether sitting through an airline flight dyingfor a… — Anna Quindlen Addiction Copy Share Image
London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences;… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It is difficult for me to imagine the same dedication to women's rights on the part of the kind of man who… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“It’s one of the best parts of growing up and growing older, I think, that feeling that you’ll just get through one… — Anna Quindlen Growing old Copy Share Image
All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. — Anna Quindlen Book Copy Share Image
All the things we don’t say, all the words we swallow, and it makes nothing but trouble. — Anna Quindlen Language Copy Share Image
“The curse of having young people about the house was that they were always so redolent of possibility.” — Anna Quindlen Curse Copy Share Image
The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with. — Anna Quindlen American women Copy Share Image
You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“I hid my wounds because I was ashamed...but now I know that I was also afraid of being reduced..” — Anna Quindlen Ashamed Copy Share Image
All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Catastrophe is numerical. Loss is singular, one beloved at a time. — Anna Quindlen Beloved Copy Share Image
Barack Obama presents as kind of a cool character, and I think that that's his natural personality. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning. — Anna Quindlen Morning Copy Share Image
“You can tell a really wonderful quote by the fact that it's attributed to a whole raft of wits.” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit. — Anna Quindlen Crafts Copy Share Image
high fashion has little to do with what women wear and a lot to do with what retailers mark down later. — Anna Quindlen Fashion Copy Share Image
“He’d had a dog once, in that way he’d had everything in his childhood, ordinary but a lot less lasting.” — Anna Quindlen Childhood Copy Share Image
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