I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Your kids are launched. You love your work but you understand how to place it in the panorama of the rest of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It makes me angry to think that . . . female sanitation workers will spend their days doing a job most of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
And I don't have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It's almost as if… — 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
Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. You toodle along, thinking that all gay men wear leather after dark and should never,… — Anna Quindlen 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 Copy Share Image
Consider the lilies of the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby's ear. Read in the backyard with the sun on… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think that after a while you realize that your husband can't be all things to you and certainly you don't want… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think one of the hardest things about doing a book in the first person is that to a certain extent each… — 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 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
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 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
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 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
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
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
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 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 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 think when people keep saying to you, "You're good at this," you just keep doing 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
