Women are the glue that holds our day-to-day world together. — Anna Quindlen Day to day Copy Share Image
The New Testament has had a really powerful effect on how I write and how I live my life. — Anna Quindlen Effects Copy Share Image
Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it. — Anna Quindlen Can do Copy Share Image
We almost manage to forget that things happen that we don't anticipate. — Anna Quindlen Anticipate Copy Share Image
knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us. — Anna Quindlen Death Copy Share Image
Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us. — Anna Quindlen Death Copy Share Image
Sometimes we don't see out of our peripheral vision what's coming right around the corner. — Anna Quindlen Around the corner Copy Share Image
“All of reading is really only finding ways to name ourselves, and, perhaps, to name the others around us so that they… — Anna Quindlen Reading Copy Share Image
While liberals had embraced Obama as someone who had left-wing progressive ideas, the truth is that by personality he's a very incremental… — Anna Quindlen Guy Copy Share Image
It is so easy to waste our lives: Our days, our hours, our minutes ... it is so easy to exist instead… — Anna Quindlen Clock ticking Copy Share Image
Reading is another thing that has made me more human by exposing me to worlds I might never have entered and people… — Anna Quindlen Exposing Copy Share Image
There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not… — Anna Quindlen Beauty Copy Share Image
I'm very optimistic. I think if you would describe me, my pretty consistent affect is that I'm a pretty happy person. — Anna Quindlen Consistent Copy Share Image
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly… — Anna Quindlen Bookshelves Copy Share Image
Each instance of sexual harassment has to be judged on its merits. Facts, timing, motives, credibility: all must be considered before we… — Anna Quindlen Believe Copy Share Image
The beginning and the end are never really the journey of discovery for me. It is the middle that remains a puzzle… — Anna Quindlen Beginning 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 Failure Copy Share Image
Prosecutors insist they are mounting a "thorough investigation," which sometimes means thorough and sometimes, historically, has meant long enough to let the… — Anna Quindlen Cases Copy Share Image
A friend and I flew south with our children. During the week we spent together I took off my shoes, let down… — Anna Quindlen Another woman Copy Share Image
The closest thing to an outline is, because my memory is so bad now, if something occurs to me that I think… — Anna Quindlen Book Copy Share Image
I sort of feel like it comes around again. That when you get to a certain age, when you've lived enough and… — Anna Quindlen Age 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 Affair Copy Share Image
“And then sometimes we become one of those people and are amazed, not by our own strength but by that indomitable ability… — Anna Quindlen Adversity Copy Share Image
“The lightning bugs are back. They fly low to the ground as the lawn dissolves from green to black in the dusk.… — Anna Quindlen Bugs Copy Share Image
“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I… — Anna Quindlen Aspirations Copy Share Image
“It's funny, isn't it, what will make you break? Your lover moves to London and falls in love with a news reader… — Anna Quindlen Five years Copy Share Image
“That was the old Ellen Gulden, the girl who would walk over her mother in golf shoes, who scared students away from… — Anna Quindlen Better job Copy Share Image
“Other people used photographs as a way to keep close to the events of their lives; she had used them as a… — Anna Quindlen Art Copy Share Image
“I read and reread and recommended and rarely rejected, became one of those readers who will read trashy stories as long as… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
“Set aside the old traditional notion of female as nurturer and male as leader; set aside, too, the new traditional notion of… — Anna Quindlen Ask yourself Copy Share Image
“to a surprising conclusion about this moment in our lives. No, it’s not that there are weird freckly spots on the back… — Anna Quindlen Good job Copy Share Image
