“One of the most important parts of tending our friendships is working our way, over time, into the kind of friendships that… — 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 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 Copy Share Image
The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“How many times had she heard women in New York - maybe women everywhere, for all she knew - speak lyrically of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
You realize that these accidental decisions you make about changing jobs, about moving into an apartment where you make new friends and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Now the baby boomers, i.e., us, are getting older, and were suddenly discovering that there are great things about getting older. You… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I sort of feel like it comes around again. That when you get to a certain age, when you've lived enough and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“My friendships have a certain symmetry at the moment: Alice is always asking me what she should do, and Nancy is always… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I only really understand myself, what I'm really thinking and feelings, when I've talked it over with my circle of female friends.… — Anna Quindlen 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 Copy Share Image
A friend and I flew south with our children. During the week we spent together I took off my shoes, let down… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I don't know what I would do in the world without [female friends] for advice, for comfort, for simply knowing that there… — Anna Quindlen 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 Copy Share Image
“Perhaps only when we've made our peace with our own selves can we really be the kind of friends who listen, advise,… — 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
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