Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I know that it's very dispiriting for people in their twenties, who expected to graduate from college, get their own apartments, get… — 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
The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Raising children is a spur-of-the-moment, seat-of-the-pants sort of deal, as any parent knows, particularly after an adult child says that his most… — 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
I'm boggled by the idea of being an only child. I know nothing at all (I'm happy to say) about having had… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I know the difference now between dedication and infatuation. That doesn't mean I don't still get an enormous kick out of infatuation;:… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted… — 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
So carry your courage in an easily accessible place, the way you do your cellphone or your wallet. You may still falter… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I can't begin to predict how news will be delivered to readers in, say, 100 years. But I do know one thing… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I know a lot and have written a lot and have thought a lot about motherhood. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Women writers of all people should know better than to pigeonhole women, put them in little groups, the smart one, the sweet… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I don't do research for my novels. Obviously, in my other line of work as a reporter and a columnist, I've had… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The unemployment rate among the young in the United States is still very disconcerting, although we all know it's nowhere near as… — 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
Anyone who has breast-fed knows two things for sure: The baby wants to be fed at the most inopportune times, in the… — 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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