Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I've been a feminist since I was a teenager, but originally it was because I wanted to make the world a better… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Maybe someday it will seem quaint that, during a time of plague, some of the parents of the 1990s wanted to deny… — Anna Quindlen 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 Copy Share Image
I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
At the same time that you've got to open yourself up to the fact that experience is going to teach you year… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a fiction writer, but I couldn't figure out how you could be a novelist and make any… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
One of the things that got me on this topic for this book was that when I was researching the column I… — 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
