“I haven't lost my faith, but I've lost my religion. I still believe in something so deeply. ... I've never really gotten… — Anna Quindlen Faith Copy Share Image
How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and… — Anna Quindlen Austen Copy Share Image
Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around, and nearly every book represents what my son's third grade teacher refers… — Anna Quindlen Book Copy Share Image
“Part of the great wonder of reading is that it has the ability to make human beings feel more connected to one… — Anna Quindlen Point of view Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a fiction writer, but I couldn't figure out how you could be a novelist and make any… — Anna Quindlen Fiction Copy Share Image
There are a million moving parts to raising kids, and you can't always anticipate them all, especially when they are teenagers and… — Anna Quindlen Anticipate Copy Share Image
“It’s an essential part of maturing, putting fear aside, because if there’s anything that cripples us it is fear.” — Anna Quindlen Fear Copy Share Image
The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have. — Anna Quindlen Aspiration Copy Share Image
I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that… — Anna Quindlen Care Copy Share Image
“There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The… — Anna Quindlen Book Copy Share Image
Socialized medicine, some still cry, but it's long been socialized, with those covered paying for those who are underinsured. American medicine is… — Anna Quindlen Covered Copy Share Image
You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life… — Anna Quindlen Accounts Copy Share Image
I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at… — Anna Quindlen Agree Copy Share Image
What's really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. — Anna Quindlen Becoming yourself Copy Share Image
“Nearly everyone I meet expresses deep sympathy about the fact that I have never married. Sometimes I wonder why.” — Anna Quindlen Being single Copy Share Image
“You can keep the sectional,"she'd said. He hadn't, although it had been a bitch getting it out of the house, and he'd… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“My friendships have a certain symmetry at the moment: Alice is always asking me what she should do, and Nancy is always… — Anna Quindlen Friendship Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a tough time for parent and child alike. It is a time between: between childhood and maturity, between parental protection… — Anna Quindlen Adolescence Copy Share Image
“One day she had been out walking and she had wondered whether she had become a different person in the last year,....… — Anna Quindlen Becoming Copy Share Image
I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters… — Anna Quindlen Filthy 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
“it is the only time I can rest without sleeping, think without deciding, speak and hear my own voice. It is the… — Anna Quindlen Time Copy Share Image
Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting… — Anna Quindlen Aging Copy Share Image
“I want to be able to remember it all, not just the books but the newsrooms and the playgroups and the bad… — Anna Quindlen Aging Copy Share Image
