My father really, really pushed me to excel in a way that I resented for years and then realized had really worked… — Anna Quindlen Father Copy Share Image
I think when people keep saying to you, "You're good at this," you just keep doing it. — Anna Quindlen Doing Copy Share Image
Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first. — Anna Quindlen Confuse Copy Share Image
“easing up on seventy, an age when a man might be forgiven follicular failure.” — Anna Quindlen Failure Copy Share Image
“I lived within the cover of books and those books were more real to me than any other thing in my life.” — Anna Quindlen Book Copy Share Image
When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of… — Anna Quindlen Book Copy Share Image
“Once again she had the odd sense that she had been missing something, seeing the world flat when everything was rounded.” — Anna Quindlen Heart Copy Share Image
London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences;… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
“Four A.M. and the darkness had a quality of inexorability and menace as though it would never lift, as though, without anyone… — Anna Quindlen Darkness Copy Share Image
When hot dogs like Mr. D'Amato or the Republican apologist Roger Ailes say that Whitewater is worse than Watergate, it's because they're… — Anna Quindlen Bulls Copy Share Image
The gender gap looks at this point like it's going to favor the president, particularly among white suburban women. I certainly think… — Anna Quindlen Election Copy Share Image
Predictions that unit cohesion could not survive honesty about sexual orientation were simply wrong. What does threaten morale arethe prolonged investigations, the… — Anna Quindlen Co worker Copy Share Image
Now, a lot of people are challenged by the fact that a record number of people in their sixties have living parents,… — Anna Quindlen Depends Copy Share Image
It often seems, looking back, that the unexpected comes to define us, the paths we didn't see coming and may have wandered… — Anna Quindlen Failure Copy Share Image
Prosecutors insist they are mounting a "thorough investigation," which sometimes means thorough and sometimes, historically, has meant long enough to let the… — Anna Quindlen Cases Copy Share Image
Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia,… — Anna Quindlen Behave Copy Share Image
You realize that especially when you're writing a book like this, looking back on your life, that there's just such a depth… — Anna Quindlen Acquire Copy Share Image
God bless the physician who warms the speculum or holds your hand and looks into your eyes. Perhaps one subtext of the… — Anna Quindlen Bless 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 Budgets Copy Share Image
The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a yearless… — Anna Quindlen Absence 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 Age life Copy Share Image
The Cairo conferenceis about a complicated web of education and employment, consumption and poverty, development and health care. It is also about… — Anna Quindlen Birth Copy Share Image
The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific… — Anna Quindlen Assuming Copy Share Image
“there is still a kind of unique loneliness to child rearing for women. We so often do it in isolation. Add to… — Anna Quindlen Children Copy Share Image
“I remember the first year after my second child was born, what I can remember of it at all, as a year… — Anna Quindlen Children Copy Share Image
“One of the most important parts of tending our friendships is working our way, over time, into the kind of friendships that… — Anna Quindlen Friendship Copy Share Image
“The thing about old friends is not that they love you, but that they know you. They remember that disastrous New Year's… — Anna Quindlen Aging 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 Children Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you say a word so many times that it loses its meaning...” — Anna Quindlen Language Copy Share Image
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit. — Anna Quindlen Crafts Copy Share Image
The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you. — Anna Quindlen Accepting Copy Share Image
The New Testament has had a really powerful effect on how I write and how I live my life. — Anna Quindlen Effects Copy Share Image
I really feel like I'm a liberal because I'm a Catholic, because I took the words of the New Testament to heart. — Anna Quindlen Catholic Copy Share Image
“books became the greatest purveyors of truth, and the truth shall make you free.” — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
You want to have fun with your kids, and no one has fun with someone who runs roughshod. — Anna Quindlen Fun Copy Share Image
I think the very best thing about the internet is that I can read all the London papers every day if I… — Anna Quindlen Best things Copy Share Image
the most sacred business of judges is not to ratify the will of the majority but to protect the minority from its… — Anna Quindlen Business Copy Share Image
The one thing that I always got positive reinforcement for from teachers, who really changed my life, was the written word. — Anna Quindlen Changed Copy Share Image
![“London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, door, passsage, door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand.” quote by Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bf8/anna-quindlen-467_books_london-opens-to-you-like-a-novel-itself_3073362.jpg)
![“[After my mother died, I had a feeling that was] not unlike the homesickness that always filled me for the first few days when I went to stay at my grandparents'' house, and even, I was stunned to discover, during the first few months of my freshman year at college. It was not really the home my…” quote by Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ab8/anna-quindlen-467_children_after-my-mother-died-i-had-a-feeling-tha_2710339.jpg)
