Barack Obama presents as kind of a cool character, and I think that that's his natural personality. — 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
Barack Obama is the kind of guy who likes to do things by inches, he's the kind of guy who likes to… — 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
Obama doesn't seem like a burger and a beer kind of guy. I have to say, I don't find that problematic at… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's an odd kind of feeling because it sort of reminds me of being five again. When you're a five-year-old, you don't… — 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
It is difficult for me to imagine the same dedication to women's rights on the part of the kind of man who… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I'm just remembering myself at 22 or 23. I was all engine and no steering. (Laughter) I had the wheels but I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think what saved me, as a writer, is that there are really two breaking points in my life. One was when… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I do think that people who are now in their sixties and their seventies are living a different kind of life than… — 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
The dark aftermath of the frontier, of the vast promise of possibility this country first offered, is an inflated sense of American… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Americans like warm characters. It's why, no matter what he did in the early days, they kind of resonated to Bill Clinton… — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours pleasant to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share
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