All Anna Quindlen Quotes
- When I'm falling, my girlfriends are my soft landing. Fall
- It is so easy to waste our lives: Our days, our hours, our minutes ... it is so easy to exist instead of live. Days
- The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed, Compressed
- The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of the last century… American
- I got a fortune cookie that said, "To remember is to understand." I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like… Advice
- I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen.… Friend
- I don't know what I would do in the world without [female friends] for advice, for comfort, for simply knowing that there is someone out… Advice
- You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind,… Account
- When men do the dishes, it's called helping. When women do the dishes, it is called life. Called
- A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement. Better
- People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently. Block
- When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of… Actress
- Ask any woman how she makes it through the day, and she may mention her calendar, her to-do lists, her babysitter. But if you push… Any
- Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. Bookshelves
- I was doing the family grocery shopping accompanied by two children, an event I hope to see included in the Olympics in the near future. Accompanied
- The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them. No one does the right thing out of fear. If you ever utter the… Always Done
- Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts. Bigotry
- It often seems, looking back, that the unexpected comes to define us, the paths we didn't see coming and may have wandered down by mistake.… Coming
- Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why… Candle
- The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided ever more reasons for its spiritual solace. Emails are letters, after all,… Age