the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
So I do think sometimes the political mechanism is completely disconnected from the people. However, what I will say is that history… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
More than a decade after our fellow citizens began bedding down on the sidewalks, their problems continue to seem so intractable that… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The difference between government and leadership is that leadership has a soul. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The Cairo conferenceis about a complicated web of education and employment, consumption and poverty, development and health care. It is also about… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
There are obvious places in which government can narrow the chasm between haves and have-nots. One is the public schools, which have… — 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
