“Perhaps it was that I wanted to see what I had learned, what I had read, what I had imagined, that I… — Anna Quindlen Cities Copy Share Image
“Peter was easing up on seventy, an age when a man might be forgiven follicular failure. But Rebecca forgave him nothing. She… — Anna Quindlen Failure Copy Share Image
“The difference between fifty and sixty is nothing; the difference between eight and eighteen is more or less a lifetime.” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
My sister is a public school teacher. She makes far far less money than I do, and gets almost no public attention… — Anna Quindlen Attention Copy Share Image
Well, we tell our kids things like 'don't gossip' and then an hour later they hear us on the phone. Stuff like… — Anna Quindlen Gossip 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
“Of those of us who comprise the real clan of the book, who read not to judge the reading of others but… — Anna Quindlen Books 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
“For those of us who suspect all the mysteries of life are contained in the microcosm of the family, that personal relationships… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of… — Anna Quindlen Communication Copy Share Image
Barack Obama presents as kind of a cool character, and I think that that's his natural personality. — Anna Quindlen Barack Copy Share Image
When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about… — Anna Quindlen Actresses Copy Share Image
Parents have railed against shelters near schools, but no one has made any connection between the crazed consumerism of our kids and… — Anna Quindlen Cold Copy Share Image
There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and… — Anna Quindlen Emergency room Copy Share Image
Athletes are American princes and the locker room is their castle. Some of them behave in princely fashion, become legitimate heroes to… — Anna Quindlen Athlete Copy Share Image
Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird… — Anna Quindlen Anna Copy Share Image
I think what saved me, as a writer, is that there are really two breaking points in my life. One was when… — Anna Quindlen Born 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 Time Copy Share Image
The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But… — Anna Quindlen Attending Copy Share Image
I believe that in a contest between the living and the almost living, the latter must, if necessary, give way to the… — Anna Quindlen Abortion Copy Share Image
“It turned out that when my younger self thought of taking wing, she wanted only to let her spirit soar. Books are… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
When I quit The New York Times to be a fulltime mother, the voices of the world said I was nuts....But if… — Anna Quindlen Doe Copy Share Image
Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he… — Anna Quindlen Beginning Copy Share Image
The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them. No one does the right thing out of fear. If you… — Anna Quindlen Conformity Copy Share Image
