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 believe that in a contest between the living and the almost living, the latter must, if necessary, give way to the… — 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
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
And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be cheap, too. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I feel about exercise the same way that I feel about a few other things: that there is nothing wrong with it… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I always have music on unless I'm reading aloud, which I always do before I hand anything in. It's the only way… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
There may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
People ask me all the time if I'm from a family of writers. The literal short answer is no, but my father… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The Church does an enormous amount of good, and it carries one of the most valuable messages imaginable - that you should… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I'll tell you the truth - I went to a women's college, Barnard, the most selective college for women in America today.… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If you raise an intelligent girl she will become a feminist because of the facts of her own life. Raising feminist boys… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Your kids are launched. You love your work but you understand how to place it in the panorama of the rest of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It is hard to find someone who will give your children a feeling of security while it lasts and not wound them… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
When I quit The New York Times to be a fulltime mother, the voices of the world said I was nuts…But if… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I don't understand how people learn to live in the world if they haven't had siblings. Everything I learned about negotiation, territoriality,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them. No one does the right thing out of fear. If you… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If you want to write what the world is about, you have to write details...real life is in the dishes. Real life… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Let me say first that reading is my favorite pastime, bar none. If I couldn't read, I don't know what I'd do.… — 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
If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
With reference to the younger generation..."If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not to go… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people, but particularly a lot of women, get to this stage when I'd say they're over 50.… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided ever more reasons for its spiritual solace. Emails are… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Ask any woman how she makes it through the day, and she may mention her calendar, her to-do lists, her babysitter. But… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If I waited long enough and said, "Okay, so what you're saying is you liked your life a lot better when you… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I learned that if I ever claim sexual harassment, I will be confronted with every bozo I once dated, every women I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
There are a million moving parts to raising kids, and you can't always anticipate them all, especially when they are teenagers and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The closest thing to an outline is, because my memory is so bad now, if something occurs to me that I think… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I really feel like if you can get past your fear, if you can say, "Uh-uh, I'm afraid to do that and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think the gift of my mother's death, if anything so terrible can be said to have an upside to it, is… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If I had to guess what the new Etch-A-Sketch picture is going to be like, it's going to be considerably less to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
On the other hand, I think that Governor Romney has to worry that his turnout is going to be low, that he… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If God is watching us, as some believers suggest, as though we were a television show and God had a lot of… — 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
