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
Get a life. A real life. Not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If you want to write what the world is about, you have to write details...real life is in the dishes. Real life… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I'm not making light of prayers here, but of so-called school prayer, which bears as much resemblance to real spiritual experienceas that… — 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
Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be… — 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
If I waited long enough and said, "Okay, so what you're saying is you liked your life a lot better when you… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I had that feeling you have when you're watching a sad movie, sobbing at the heartbreak you are feeling at the same… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think there was a long period of time when we got real invested in a youth culture, and not coincidentally it… — 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
