When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of… — Anna Quindlen Communication Copy Share Image
And I don't have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It's almost as if… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
A safety net of small white lies can be the bedrock of a successful marriage. You wouldn't believe how cheaply I can… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child. — Anna Quindlen Curse Copy Share Image
“the older we get, the more we understand that the women who know and love us - and love us despite what… — Anna Quindlen Feminism Copy Share Image
I believe that in a contest between the living and the almost living, the latter must, if necessary, give way to the… — Anna Quindlen Abortion Copy Share Image
There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
What I expect from my male friends is that they are polite and clean. What I expect from my female friends is… — Anna Quindlen Ability Copy Share Image
London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason… — Anna Quindlen Book Copy Share Image
It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“She had filled her days mourning that shadow life, and it had no more meaning than the chattering of monkeys. Instead, these… — Anna Quindlen Heart Copy Share Image
I'm boggled by the idea of being an only child. I know nothing at all (I'm happy to say) about having had… — Anna Quindlen Autobiography Copy Share Image
“A loose end - that's what we woman call it, when we are overwhelmed by the care of small children, the weight… — Anna Quindlen Children Copy Share Image
As I said, I had this fabulous college education. At college I met the man to whom I've been married for 34… — Anna Quindlen College Copy Share Image
Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. You toodle along, thinking that all gay men wear leather after dark and should never,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
My home was in a pleasant place outside of Philadelphia. But I really lived, truly lived, somewhere else. I lived within the… — Anna Quindlen Book Copy Share Image
I went to a women's college. ... it was a little like learning to swim while holding on to the side of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a fiction writer, but I couldn't figure out how you could be a novelist and make any… — Anna Quindlen Fiction Copy Share Image
“The difference between fifty and sixty is nothing; the difference between eight and eighteen is more or less a lifetime.” — Anna Quindlen Difference Copy Share Image
I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehersal, and that today is… — Anna Quindlen Destination Copy Share Image
“it seem like he was training for the Olympics and I was the gold medal. No one had ever acted like I… — Anna Quindlen Gold medal Copy Share Image
“All of reading is really only finding ways to name ourselves, and, perhaps, to name the others around us so that they… — Anna Quindlen Reading Copy Share Image
While liberals had embraced Obama as someone who had left-wing progressive ideas, the truth is that by personality he's a very incremental… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It is so easy to waste our lives: Our days, our hours, our minutes ... it is so easy to exist instead… — Anna Quindlen Clock ticking Copy Share Image
Reading is another thing that has made me more human by exposing me to worlds I might never have entered and people… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I'm very optimistic. I think if you would describe me, my pretty consistent affect is that I'm a pretty happy person. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not… — Anna Quindlen Beauty Copy Share Image
Each instance of sexual harassment has to be judged on its merits. Facts, timing, motives, credibility: all must be considered before we… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Ethnic stereotypes are misshapen pearls, sometimes with a sandy grain of truth at their center. ... but they ignore complexity, change, and individuality. — Anna Quindlen Change Copy Share Image
“It turned out that when my younger self thought of taking wing, she wanted only to let her spirit soar. Books are… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
“All my life I had known one thing for sure about myself, and that was that my life would never be her… — Anna Quindlen Life Copy Share Image
“The most memorable books from our childhoods are those that make us feel less alone, convince us that our own foibles and… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“knew, that for a birthday or a holiday or simply a dinner party offering, they could bring her a snow globe. Except… — Anna Quindlen Dinner party Copy Share Image
I think the last couple of years of life for many, many people are the same as they were 50, 60, 70… — Anna Quindlen Couple Copy Share Image
On social welfare the Church does so much good around the world - nuns running schools and homeless shelters, priests ministering to… — Anna Quindlen Around the world Copy Share Image
Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about… — Anna Quindlen Beginnings and endings Copy Share Image
