Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a… — 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
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
The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America. — 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
Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Now, a lot of people are challenged by the fact that a record number of people in their sixties have living parents,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It often seems, looking back, that the unexpected comes to define us, the paths we didn't see coming and may have wandered… — 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
