I really feel like if you can get past your fear, if you can say, "Uh-uh, I'm afraid to do that and… — Anna Quindlen Fear Copy Share Image
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
“My mother spoke, alive again inside my brain...She spoke and I listened to her, because I was afraid if I didn't her… — Anna Quindlen Parenting Copy Share Image
Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to… — Anna Quindlen Acts of bravery Copy Share Image
“the older we get, the more we understand that the women who know and love us - and love us despite what… — Anna Quindlen Life Copy Share Image
“Anyone familiar with the love affairs between men and women could have told them that theirs would soon be over.” — Anna Quindlen Love Copy Share Image
Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first. — Anna Quindlen Firsts 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
A friend and I flew south with our children. During the week we spent together I took off my shoes, let down… — Anna Quindlen Another woman Copy Share Image
There are obvious places in which government can narrow the chasm between haves and have-nots. One is the public schools, which have… — Anna Quindlen Chasms 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
“It had turned out that climbing a tree was more difficult than it looked. It was harder than warrior pose in yoga,… — Anna Quindlen Trees Copy Share Image
Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people… — Anna Quindlen Austen 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
You're like a cake when you're young. You can't rush it or it will fall, or just turn out wrong. Rising takes… — Anna Quindlen Cake Copy Share Image
We are writers. We danced with words, as children, in what became familiar patterns. The words became our friends and our companions,… — Anna Quindlen Can do Copy Share Image
I think when people keep saying to you, "You're good at this," you just keep doing it. — Anna Quindlen People 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
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
I don't know what I would do in the world without [female friends] for advice, for comfort, for simply knowing that there… — Anna Quindlen Advice Copy Share Image
My father expected his first child to be a boy, and when it didn't turn out that way he didn't let the… — Anna Quindlen Boys Copy Share Image
“easing up on seventy, an age when a man might be forgiven follicular failure.” — Anna Quindlen Failure 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
My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room, and I realized that out of a… — Anna Quindlen Born Copy Share Image
