I think the last couple of years of life for many, many people are the same as they were 50, 60, 70… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
You realize that especially when you're writing a book like this, looking back on your life, that there's just such a depth… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The gender gap looks at this point like it's going to favor the president, particularly among white suburban women. I certainly think… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
In the same way the Brits had to get used to the idea that the sun had set on the British Empire,… — Anna Quindlen 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 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 Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people, but particularly a lot of women, get to this stage when I'd say they're over 50.… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think the gift of my mother's death, if anything so terrible can be said to have an upside to it, is… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If I had to guess what the new Etch-A-Sketch picture is going to be like, it's going to be considerably less to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
On the other hand, I think that Governor Romney has to worry that his turnout is going to be low, that he… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
However, there will be a Republican Party platform that will coalesce around their convention. Unless I miss my guess, it will be… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I really feel like if you can get past your fear, if you can say, "Uh-uh, I'm afraid to do that and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I never think about issues when I'm working on a novel. Issues are things that happen to people in sufficient numbers to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think what saved me, as a writer, is that there are really two breaking points in my life. One was when… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I'm writing this memoir from the perspective of somebody who's prosperous and has means. Having said that, one of the things that… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I only really understand myself, what I'm really thinking and feelings, when I've talked it over with my circle of female friends.… — 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 Americans suspect, without even being able to articulate it, that we're at the end of the American century; that we're… — 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
