Maybe crazy is just the word we use for feelings that will not be contained. — Anna Quindlen Crazy Copy Share Image
Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description. — Anna Quindlen Description Copy Share Image
I think we now know the limits also of intelligence and rhetoric. — Anna Quindlen Intelligence Copy Share Image
That's really what I want in a leader; I want somebody who's really, really smart. — Anna Quindlen Intelligence 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
You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are. — Anna Quindlen Design Copy Share Image
When you really want to say no, say no. You can't do everything - or at least not well. — Anna Quindlen Habit Copy Share Image
“When you look back on your life there are always times that you remember as the hard times, even if they're the… — Anna Quindlen Grief and loss Copy Share Image
Down time is where we become ourselves... a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels… — Anna Quindlen Boredom Copy Share Image
I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show… — Anna Quindlen Friend 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
A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a… — Anna Quindlen Carefree Copy Share Image
part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character… — Anna Quindlen Character Copy Share Image
“Just remember that sometimes you drift into things, and then you can't get out of them. Not to decide is to decide.” — Anna Quindlen Decide Copy Share Image
America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict… — Anna Quindlen America Copy Share Image
The Church does an enormous amount of good, and it carries one of the most valuable messages imaginable - that you should… — Anna Quindlen Amount Copy Share Image
“I was good with being alone, always liked it, but there's something about doing a job alone that you've always done with… — Anna Quindlen Being alone Copy Share Image
February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green… — Anna Quindlen Appearance Copy Share Image
I'll tell you the truth - I went to a women's college, Barnard, the most selective college for women in America today.… — Anna Quindlen America Copy Share Image
“Like so many of the other books I read, it never seemed to me like a book, but like a place I… — Anna Quindlen Book Copy Share Image
“And then sometimes we become one of those people and are amazed, not by our own strength but by that indomitable ability… — Anna Quindlen Adversity Copy Share Image
“I mark my years or parenting by the people who stepped in and forced me to abandon my inclination to meddle, micromanage,… — Anna Quindlen Children Copy Share Image
The beginning and the end are never really the journey of discovery for me. It is the middle that remains a puzzle… — Anna Quindlen Beginning Copy Share Image
“You make concessions when you're married a long time that you don't believe you'll ever make when you're beginning. You say to… — Anna Quindlen Front door Copy Share Image
“Everything in all the books I once pored over is finished for me now. Penelope Leach. T. Berry Brazelton. Dr. Spock. The… — Anna Quindlen Biggest mistake Copy Share Image
The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of… — Anna Quindlen American writer Copy Share Image
Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried… — Anna Quindlen Avon Copy Share Image
“How many times had she heard women in New York - maybe women everywhere, for all she knew - speak lyrically of… — Anna Quindlen Friendship Copy Share Image
Being accused of making money by selling sex in Hollywood, home of the casting couch and the gratuitous nude scene, is so… — Anna Quindlen Accused Copy Share Image
What usually happens is that when I'm nearing the end of one novel a vague idea about what I want to do… — Anna Quindlen Car 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
All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough. — Anna Quindlen Doing Copy Share Image
“I thought I had a handle on my future. But the future, it turns out, is not a tote bag.” — Anna Quindlen Future Copy Share Image
“There are ways and ways of dying, and some of them leave you walking around.” — Anna Quindlen Death Copy Share Image
“reading has as many functions as the human body, and... not all of them are cerebral.” — Anna Quindlen Cerebral Copy Share Image
Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. — Anna Quindlen Cement Copy Share Image
“...there is a piece of me missing so big that the pain doubles me over, clawing at my gut...” — Anna Quindlen Pain Copy Share Image
