“Set aside the old traditional notion of female as nurturer and male as leader; set aside, too, the new traditional notion of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
There's no greater happiness than doing something every day that you love, that you feel you do in a satisfactory fashion, and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
A week in the hospital she had told us. A hysterectomy, she had said. It had seemed unremarkable to me in a… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I wondered why I hadn't loved that day more, why I hadn't savored every bit of it...why I hadn't known how good… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“And then sometimes we become one of those people and are amazed, not by our own strength but by that indomitable ability… — Anna Quindlen 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 Copy Share Image
I think the very best thing about the internet is that I can read all the London papers every day if I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Sometimes change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar that rose… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
You teach your 16-year-old with your heart in your mouth to be a good driver and none of that makes any difference when some… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within it, at… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“I’ve finally recognized my body for what it is: a personality-delivery system, designed expressly to carry my character from place to place, now and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been madamed once,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Yet there was always in me, even when I was very small, the sense that I ought to be somewhere else. And wander I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
