“I hid my wounds because I was ashamed...but now I know that I was also afraid of being reduced..” — Anna Quindlen Ashamed Copy Share Image
A safety net of small white lies can be the bedrock of a successful marriage. You wouldn't believe how cheaply I can… — Anna Quindlen Bedrock Copy Share Image
London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences;… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
“Once again she had the odd sense that she had been missing something, seeing the world flat when everything was rounded.” — Anna Quindlen Seeing the world Copy Share Image
You realize that especially when you're writing a book like this, looking back on your life, that there's just such a depth… — Anna Quindlen Acquire Copy Share Image
“I remember the first year after my second child was born, what I can remember of it at all, as a year… — Anna Quindlen Children Copy Share Image
If I had to guess what the new Etch-A-Sketch picture is going to be like, it's going to be considerably less to… — Anna Quindlen Corners Copy Share Image
Prosecutors insist they are mounting a "thorough investigation," which sometimes means thorough and sometimes, historically, has meant long enough to let the… — Anna Quindlen Cases Copy Share Image
When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job,… — Anna Quindlen Alive Copy Share Image
I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility. — Anna Quindlen Cat Copy Share Image
Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning. — Anna Quindlen Morning Copy Share Image
“Raging crime, class warfare, invasive immigrants, light morals, public misbehavior. Always we convince ourselves that the parade of unwelcome and despised is… — Anna Quindlen Class warfare Copy Share Image
“Four A.M. and the darkness had a quality of inexorability and menace as though it would never lift, as though, without anyone… — Anna Quindlen Darkness Copy Share Image
Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful… — Anna Quindlen Busy Copy Share Image
I think the last couple of years of life for many, many people are the same as they were 50, 60, 70… — Anna Quindlen Couple Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you say a word so many times that it loses its meaning...” — Anna Quindlen Language Copy Share Image
“there is still a kind of unique loneliness to child rearing for women. We so often do it in isolation. Add to… — Anna Quindlen Children Copy Share Image
“Perhaps only when we've made our peace with our own selves can we really be the kind of friends who listen, advise,… — Anna Quindlen Friendship Copy Share Image
The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a… — Anna Quindlen Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
The one thing that I always got positive reinforcement for from teachers, who really changed my life, was the written word. — Anna Quindlen Changed Copy Share Image
I'm always keeping an eye on the court. Also, when the members of Congress came to his office during the budget debacle… — Anna Quindlen Budgets Copy Share Image
I think the very best thing about the internet is that I can read all the London papers every day if I… — Anna Quindlen Best things Copy Share Image
the most sacred business of judges is not to ratify the will of the majority but to protect the minority from its… — Anna Quindlen Business Copy Share Image