You just can't tell or calibrate motive or intelligence or sense. So I don't read anything unless someone tells me that it's… — Anna Quindlen Illuminating Copy Share Image
These are my words; this is their world, a world in which we can wear our gender on our sleeves, unabashedly, as… — Anna Quindlen Business Copy Share Image
high fashion has little to do with what women wear and a lot to do with what retailers mark down later. — Anna Quindlen Fashion Copy Share Image
We don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty… — Anna Quindlen Ambivalence Copy Share Image
The best thing about Sassy Seats is that grandmothers cannot figure out how they work and are in constant fear of the… — Anna Quindlen Aspect Copy Share Image
I've been a feminist since I was a teenager, but originally it was because I wanted to make the world a better… — Anna Quindlen Better place Copy Share Image
“It's a funny thing, hope. It's not like love, or fear, or hate. It's a feeling you don't really know you had… — Anna Quindlen Fear Copy Share Image
Maybe someday it will seem quaint that, during a time of plague, some of the parents of the 1990s wanted to deny… — Anna Quindlen Aids Copy Share Image
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly… — Anna Quindlen Building Copy Share Image
“It's odd when I think of the arc of my life, from child to young woman to aging adult. First I was… — Anna Quindlen Children Copy Share Image
The Statue of Liberty is meant to be shorthand for a country so unlike its parts that a trip from California to… — Anna Quindlen California Copy Share Image
WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE WOMEN THAT HAVE MADE A REAL DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD THROUGHOUT HISTORY, WHAT THEY’VE DONE HAS ALMOST… — Anna Quindlen Differences Copy Share Image
“A book--the book that was, for some reason, THE book--can be reread, unchanged. Only we have changed. And that makes all the… — Anna Quindlen Book Copy Share Image
“Oh, the loneliness, the loneliness. It lived inside her now like an illness, like a flu that could be ignored and then… — Anna Quindlen Loneliness 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
Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on… — Anna Quindlen Actors Copy Share Image
She say guilt is a useless emotion." "Oh, please," says Nancy. "Guilt is what separates humans from animals. — Anna Quindlen Animal Copy Share Image
If we really feel like we're comfortable in our own skins now, we have a longer period of time to live out… — Anna Quindlen Comfortable Copy Share Image
There's something undeniable about the posture of a person trying not to acknowledge your existance — Anna Quindlen Acknowledge Copy Share Image
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. — Anna Quindlen Book 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
“I've discovered that sometimes writing badly can eventually lead to something better. Not writing at all leads to nothing.” — Anna Quindlen Writing Copy Share Image
“valley? That should be interesting for you.” “I haven’t decided what I’m doing yet.” “I’d be happy to help,” Mr. Bally said.… — Anna Quindlen Iced tea Copy Share Image
I go online all the time, I just don't read about myself. I read a fashion website called Go Fug Yourself. I… — Anna Quindlen Fashion Copy Share Image
