“I know who we are, and how we got that way. We are writers. We danced with the words, as children, in… — Anna Quindlen Children Copy Share Image
Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing… — Anna Quindlen Clear Copy Share Image
With reference to the younger generation..."If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not to go… — Anna Quindlen Aging Copy Share Image
“Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird… — Anna Quindlen Bleak house Copy Share Image
New York is a city where it's particularly hard to be poor, not only because everything costs twice as much as it… — Anna Quindlen Affluence Copy Share Image
The dark aftermath of the frontier, of the vast promise of possibility this country first offered, is an inflated sense of American… — Anna Quindlen Aftermath Copy Share Image
Reporters are not paid to operate in retrospect. Because when news begins to solidify into current events and finally harden intohistory, it… — Anna Quindlen Asks Copy Share Image
Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us. It is a whisper in the world and… — Anna Quindlen Chasms Copy Share Image
those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
The unemployment rate among the young in the United States is still very disconcerting, although we all know it's nowhere near as… — Anna Quindlen Approach Copy Share Image
[I]n contrast to the common belief that they are the world's greatest cynics, the best journalists are the world's great idealists. They… — Anna Quindlen Announcements 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 greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with. — Anna Quindlen American women Copy Share Image
“She wants to be someone else, somewhere else, and I can't blame her.” — Anna Quindlen Somewhere else Copy Share Image
The difference between government and leadership is that leadership has a soul. — Anna Quindlen Differences 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
Ask any woman how she makes it through the day, and she may mention her calendar, her to-do lists, her babysitter. But… — Anna Quindlen Asks Copy Share Image
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 was doing the family grocery shopping accompanied by two children, an event I hope to see included in the Olympics in… — Anna Quindlen Children Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things I discovered, talking about your grandmother, is I did a search of my uses of the word… — Anna Quindlen Copies 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
I think a lot of people, but particularly a lot of women, get to this stage when I'd say they're over 50.… — Anna Quindlen Faces Copy Share Image
It is difficult for me to imagine the same dedication to women's rights on the part of the kind of man who… — Anna Quindlen Breasts Copy Share Image
Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear… — Anna Quindlen Children 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
![“[I]n contrast to the common belief that they are the…” quote by Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6a8/anna-quindlen-467_announcements_i-n-contrast-to-the-common-belief-that-t_2613212.jpg)
![“[After my mother died, I had a feeling that was]…” 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)