Jail sentences have many functions, but one is surely to send a message about what our society abhors and what it values.… — Anna Quindlen Abuse Copy Share Image
If I waited long enough and said, "Okay, so what you're saying is you liked your life a lot better when you… — Anna Quindlen Cases Copy Share Image
On the other hand, I think that Governor Romney has to worry that his turnout is going to be low, that he… — Anna Quindlen Clear Copy Share Image
I like to say that my mother had a very ordinary life. From the outside it didn't look like there was anything… — Anna Quindlen Damn Copy Share Image
Writing for UrbanMoms has awarded me a multitude of amazing opportunities. I have traveled to new places; alone and with my family.… — Anna Quindlen Able Copy Share Image
I know that it's very dispiriting for people in their twenties, who expected to graduate from college, get their own apartments, get… — Anna Quindlen Apartment Copy Share Image
“[B]oth my husband and I are the eldest in largish families and both of us had childhoods punctuated by pregnancies, the weeklong… — Anna Quindlen Childhood Copy Share Image
You realize that these accidental decisions you make about changing jobs, about moving into an apartment where you make new friends and… — Anna Quindlen Apartment 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
“Out lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.” — Anna Quindlen Happenstance Copy Share Image
“...I had enough of real life everyday to last me forever.” — Anna Quindlen Everyday Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you say a word so many times that it loses its meaning...” — Anna Quindlen Language 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
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
I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility. — Anna Quindlen Cat 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
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
If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it. — Anna Quindlen Ifs Copy Share Image
This is why I had children: to offer them a perfect dream of childhood that can fill their souls as they grow… — Anna Quindlen Childhood 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
“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
“It was a kind of circular thing: to be the kind of person who would have taken Faith in, he had to… — Anna Quindlen Kind person 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
“All my life I had known one thing for sure about myself, and that was that my life would never be her… — Anna Quindlen Life 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 Couple Copy Share Image
Poor kids are much more likely to become sick than their richer counterparts, but much less likely to have health insurance. Talk… — Anna Quindlen Care Copy Share Image
When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job,… — Anna Quindlen Alive 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
Anyone who has breast-fed knows two things for sure: The baby wants to be fed at the most inopportune times, in the… — Anna Quindlen Baby Copy Share Image
His [O.J. Simpson's] supporters lined the freeway to cheer him on Friday and commentators talked about his tragedy. Did those people see… — Anna Quindlen Great saying by great authors Copy Share Image
If God is watching us, as some believers suggest, as though we were a television show and God had a lot of… — Anna Quindlen Arguing Copy Share Image
I haven't seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When members of the arts community… — Anna Quindlen Art Copy Share Image
Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful… — Anna Quindlen Busy 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
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