I think that we really fool ourselves about our ability to be safe and secure nowadays. — Anna Quindlen Ability Copy Share Image
A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement. — Anna Quindlen Cement Copy Share Image
Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones. — Anna Quindlen Child Copy Share Image
Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules. — Anna Quindlen Child Copy Share Image
Choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work. — Anna Quindlen Baby Copy Share Image
I'm a Catholic of the New Testament, I'm not a Catholic of the hierarchy. — Anna Quindlen Bible Copy Share Image
“For the young the days go fast and the years go slow; for the old the days go slow and the years… — Anna Quindlen Slow Copy Share Image
I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person. — Anna Quindlen Comfortable Copy Share Image
“I've always thought that Freud's theory of penis envy was fairly ridiculous -- but I'm absolutely certain that if you put a… — Anna Quindlen Envy Copy Share Image
I've been a feminist since I was a teenager, but originally it was because I wanted to make the world a better… — Anna Quindlen Better place Copy Share Image
People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage… — Anna Quindlen Blame Copy Share Image
“Peter was easing up on seventy, an age when a man might be forgiven follicular failure. But Rebecca forgave him nothing. She… — Anna Quindlen Failure Copy Share Image
The Statue of Liberty is meant to be shorthand for a country so unlike its parts that a trip from California to… — Anna Quindlen California Copy Share Image
That's what makes life so hard for women, that instead of thinking that this is the way things are, we always think… — Anna Quindlen Feminism Copy Share Image
If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books. — Anna Quindlen Harvard Copy Share Image
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in… — Anna Quindlen Feel 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 Behave Copy Share Image
I do get a sense that there's a huge disconnect between the political powers and what's really happening, so right-wing conservatives can… — Anna Quindlen America 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 Career Copy Share Image
“Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as… — Anna Quindlen Female Copy Share Image
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 Advice Copy Share Image
“Then when she really thought about it she realized she’d been becoming different people for as long as she could remember but… — Anna Quindlen Different people Copy Share Image
The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over… — Anna Quindlen Apples Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it was that I wanted to see what I had learned, what I had read, what I had imagined, that I… — Anna Quindlen Cities Copy Share Image
And yet we constantly reclaim some part of that primal spontaneity through the youngest among us, not only through their sorrow and… — Anna Quindlen Body Copy Share Image
“Coincidentally the couple who had endowed it had lived in her parents’ building. They had had an eight-year-old with a pretty singing… — Anna Quindlen Old man 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 Changed Copy Share Image
“Of those of us who comprise the real clan of the book, who read not to judge the reading of others but… — Anna Quindlen Books 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… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
Jason Oliver C. Smith, a big dumb guy who was tan, died March 30 of lung cancer and old age. He was… — Anna Quindlen Adults Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of men: men who want a wife who is predictable, and men who want a wife who is… — Anna Quindlen Husbands-and-wives Copy Share Image
![“Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives." [ Turning the Page: The future of reading is backlit and bright , Newsweek Magazine, March 25, 2010]” quote by Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/926/anna-quindlen-467_books_reading-is-not-simply-an-intellectual-pu_953665.jpg)
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