“...there is a piece of me missing so big that the pain doubles me over, clawing at my gut...” — Anna Quindlen Pain Copy Share Image
“It's funny, isn't it, what will make you break? Your lover moves to London and falls in love with a news reader… — Anna Quindlen Five years Copy Share Image
If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be cheap, too. — Anna Quindlen Birth Copy Share Image
Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried… — Anna Quindlen Avon 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 Changed Copy Share Image
“That was the old Ellen Gulden, the girl who would walk over her mother in golf shoes, who scared students away from… — Anna Quindlen Better job Copy Share Image
A week in the hospital she had told us. A hysterectomy, she had said. It had seemed unremarkable to me in a… — Anna Quindlen Breasts Copy Share Image
“How many times had she heard women in New York - maybe women everywhere, for all she knew - speak lyrically of… — Anna Quindlen Friendship Copy Share Image
All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading. — Anna Quindlen Austen Copy Share Image
“Like so many of the other books I read, it never seemed to me like a book, but like a place I… — Anna Quindlen Book Copy Share Image
Uncontrollable consumerism has become a watchword of our culture despite regular and compelling calls for its end. The United States has more… — Anna Quindlen Acquire 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 Could 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 Accounts Copy Share Image
Look around at the azaleas making fuchsia star bursts in spring; look at a full moon hanging silver in a black sky… — Anna Quindlen Astronomy Copy Share Image
You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership. — Anna Quindlen Certain Copy Share Image
I'm not making light of prayers here, but of so-called school prayer, which bears as much resemblance to real spiritual experienceas that… — Anna Quindlen Astronaut Copy Share Image
That's really what I want in a leader; I want somebody who's really, really smart. — Anna Quindlen Intelligence Copy Share Image
Maybe crazy is just the word we use for feelings that will not be contained. — Anna Quindlen Crazy Copy Share Image
Young men kill someone for a handful of coins, then are remorseless, even casual: Hey, man, things happen. And their parents nab… — Anna Quindlen Casual 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 Culture Copy Share Image
I wondered why I hadn't loved that day more, why I hadn't savored every bit of it...why I hadn't known how good… — Anna Quindlen Every day Copy Share Image
