My father really, really pushed me to excel in a way that I resented for years and then realized had really worked… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Fifty years ago, teachers said their top discipline problems were talking, chewing gum, making noise, and running in the halls. The current… — 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
The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved.… — 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… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
As I said, I had this fabulous college education. At college I met the man to whom I've been married for 34… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I'm always keeping an eye on the court. Also, when the members of Congress came to his office during the budget debacle… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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
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
My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room, and I realized that out of a… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I can't begin to predict how news will be delivered to readers in, say, 100 years. But I do know one thing… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things I discovered, talking about your grandmother, is I did a search of my uses of the word… — 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 learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Jason Oliver C. Smith, a big dumb guy who was tan, died March 30 of lung cancer and old age. He was… — 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
[After my mother died, I had a feeling that was] not unlike the homesickness that always filled me for the first few… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think at every moment in the last probably 100 years, when the institutional church had the opportunity to do the right… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Over the last twenty years, we've changed the world just enough to make it radically different, but not enough to make it… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's an odd kind of feeling because it sort of reminds me of being five again. When you're a five-year-old, you don't… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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
For many years, despite what I thought were really punitive decisions about women in the church, I stayed and stayed and stayed.… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours pleasant to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share
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