Parents have railed against shelters near schools, but no one has made any connection between the crazed consumerism of our kids and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that courage is the thing that you need more than any other thing. It's fear that cripples us. It's… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think there are some stories that need to be told by a specific person as opposed to in the third person. — 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
