Novels are usually built on conflict, sometimes very, very difficult conflict. It's why men write war novels - because there you go,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
That is supposed to be the rallying cry of women in the age of AIDS: no condom, no sex. But the dirty… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
When men do the dishes, it's called helping. When women do the dishes, it is called life. — 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
Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
A week in the hospital she had told us. A hysterectomy, she had said. It had seemed unremarkable to me in a… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Young men kill someone for a handful of coins, then are remorseless, even casual: Hey, man, things happen. And their parents nab… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. You toodle along, thinking that all gay men wear leather after dark and should never,… — 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 do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions… — 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
An election marks the end of the affair; it puts paid to the seduction of the many by the few. Pretty words,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's what the Taliban does in Afghanistan, it's what gets done in the Middle East, and it's clearly something that certain mainly… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
As I said, I had this fabulous college education. At college I met the man to whom I've been married for 34… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with. — 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
Jail sentences have many functions, but one is surely to send a message about what our society abhors and what it values.… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child,… — 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
