“Words, words. They mean nothing, less than nothing. I know.” — Anna Quindlen Language Copy Share Image
“For the young the days go fast and the years go slow; for the old the days go slow and the years… — Anna Quindlen Slow Copy Share Image
I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person. — Anna Quindlen Comfortable Copy Share Image
Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience. — Anna Quindlen Daughter Copy Share Image
It's only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions. — Anna Quindlen Delusion Copy Share Image
Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us. — Anna Quindlen Death Copy Share Image
knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us. — Anna Quindlen Death Copy Share Image
Sometimes we don't see out of our peripheral vision what's coming right around the corner. — Anna Quindlen Around the corner Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that courage is the thing that you need more than any other thing. It's fear that cripples us. It's… — Anna Quindlen Accounts Copy Share Image
The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male… — Anna Quindlen Explanation Copy Share Image
Obama doesn't seem like a burger and a beer kind of guy. I have to say, I don't find that problematic at… — Anna Quindlen Beer Copy Share Image
The truth is that when you're writing a novel you're really living in it; you're living in the house, and you're living… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity. — Anna Quindlen Age Copy Share Image
I grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and one of the things I like to say is that one of the… — Anna Quindlen Becoming Copy Share Image
Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs… — Anna Quindlen Board games Copy Share Image
“Maybe when you were a kid you were so unsure of yourself that every school year was a time of reinvention; maybe… — Anna Quindlen Time Copy Share Image
The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over… — Anna Quindlen Apples Copy Share Image
Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life… — Anna Quindlen Attention Copy Share Image
That is supposed to be the rallying cry of women in the age of AIDS: no condom, no sex. But the dirty… — Anna Quindlen Age Copy Share Image
There may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an… — Anna Quindlen Ability Copy Share Image
Sometimes change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar… — Anna Quindlen Change Copy Share Image
being a parent is not transaction ... we do not get what we give. It is the ultimate pay-it-forward endeavor: we are… — Anna Quindlen Being a parent Copy Share Image
[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their… — Anna Quindlen Battlefields Copy Share Image
Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word… — Anna Quindlen Behinds Copy Share Image
Jason Oliver C. Smith, a big dumb guy who was tan, died March 30 of lung cancer and old age. He was… — Anna Quindlen Adults Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of men: men who want a wife who is predictable, and men who want a wife who is… — Anna Quindlen Husbands-and-wives Copy Share Image
“It's funny, isn't it, what will make you break? Your lover moves to London and falls in love with a news reader… — Anna Quindlen Five years Copy Share Image
“to a surprising conclusion about this moment in our lives. No, it’s not that there are weird freckly spots on the back… — Anna Quindlen Good job Copy Share Image
“Set aside the old traditional notion of female as nurturer and male as leader; set aside, too, the new traditional notion of… — Anna Quindlen Ask yourself Copy Share Image
“I read and reread and recommended and rarely rejected, became one of those readers who will read trashy stories as long as… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
“Other people used photographs as a way to keep close to the events of their lives; she had used them as a… — Anna Quindlen Art Copy Share Image
“I think that the people I know now believe I went home to take care of my mother because I loved her.… — Anna Quindlen Parenting Copy Share Image
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