The best thing about Sassy Seats is that grandmothers cannot figure out how they work and are in constant fear of the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE WOMEN THAT HAVE MADE A REAL DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD THROUGHOUT HISTORY, WHAT THEY’VE DONE HAS ALMOST… — 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'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
I like to say that my mother had a very ordinary life. From the outside it didn't look like there was anything… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I was very driven, very focused, very ambitious. I mean, when I look back on myself in my 20s, part of me… — 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
Look around at the azaleas making fuchsia star bursts in spring; look at a full moon hanging silver in a black sky… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Consider the lilies of the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby's ear. Read in the backyard with the sun on… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
All things being equal, I would choose a woman over a man in order to even the balance of power, to insinuate… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
When you look at the women that have made a real difference in the world throughout history, what they’ve done has almost… — 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
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
The gender gap looks at this point like it's going to favor the president, particularly among white suburban women. I certainly think… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
God bless the physician who warms the speculum or holds your hand and looks into your eyes. Perhaps one subtext of 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