“It’s one of the best parts of growing up and growing older, I think, that feeling that you’ll just get through one… — Anna Quindlen Growing old Copy Share Image
“It is the glory of London that it is always ending and beginning anew, and that a visitor, with a good eye… — Anna Quindlen Books 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
I think that we really fool ourselves about our ability to be safe and secure nowadays. — Anna Quindlen Ability Copy Share Image
You can get rid of the column. It's a little like staying at a hotel; you get used to the shape of… — Anna Quindlen Columns 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
I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as… — Anna Quindlen Female Copy Share Image
The problem with freedom is that you just can't go back. Once people see what it means to be free people, you… — Anna Quindlen Fabulous Copy Share Image
“One of the most important parts of tending our friendships is working our way, over time, into the kind of friendships that… — Anna Quindlen Friendship Copy Share Image
It is hard to find someone who will give your children a feeling of security while it lasts and not wound them… — Anna Quindlen Children 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
It is so easy to waste our lives: Our days, our hours, our minutes ... it is so easy to exist instead… — Anna Quindlen Clock ticking Copy Share Image
“He’d had a dog once, in that way he’d had everything in his childhood, ordinary but a lot less lasting.” — Anna Quindlen Children 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
“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
“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
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
All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough. — Anna Quindlen Done Copy Share Image
Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description. — Anna Quindlen Description 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
And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were. — Anna Quindlen Children Copy Share Image
