Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby,… — Anna Quindlen Addict Copy Share Image
Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't… — Anna Quindlen Able Copy Share Image
I think we now know the limits also of intelligence and rhetoric. — Anna Quindlen Intelligence 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 Enough Copy Share Image
“The ultimate act of bravery does not take place on a battlefield. It takes place in your heart, when you have the… — Anna Quindlen Bravery Copy Share Image
I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society. — Anna Quindlen Community Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of men: men who want a wife who is predictable, and men who want a wife who is… — Anna Quindlen Husbands-and-wives 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 Book Copy Share Image
It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted… — Anna Quindlen Avenues Copy Share Image
February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green… — Anna Quindlen Appearance Copy Share Image
Let me say first that reading is my favorite pastime, bar none. If I couldn't read, I don't know what I'd do.… — Anna Quindlen Bars Copy Share Image
Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs… — Anna Quindlen Board games Copy Share Image
Obama doesn't seem like a burger and a beer kind of guy. I have to say, I don't find that problematic at… — Anna Quindlen Beer Copy Share Image
It's only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions. — Anna Quindlen Delusion Copy Share Image
If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books. — Anna Quindlen Harvard Copy Share Image
You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are. — Anna Quindlen Design Copy Share Image
For most of my life the only ceremonies I've been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like… — Anna Quindlen Ceremony Copy Share Image
One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity. — Anna Quindlen Age Copy Share Image
It makes me angry to think that . . . female sanitation workers will spend their days doing a job most of… — Anna Quindlen Angry Copy Share Image
“Everything in all the books I once pored over is finished for me now. Penelope Leach. T. Berry Brazelton. Dr. Spock. The… — Anna Quindlen Biggest mistake Copy Share Image
So carry your courage in an easily accessible place, the way you do your cellphone or your wallet. You may still falter… — Anna Quindlen Career Copy Share Image