I got a fortune cookie that said, "To remember is to understand." I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what… — Anna Quindlen Advice Copy Share Image
Reading is another thing that has made me more human by exposing me to worlds I might never have entered and people… — Anna Quindlen Exposing 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
Hospitals are a little like the beach. The next wave comes in, and the footprints of your pain and suffering, your delivery… — Anna Quindlen Beach Copy Share Image
the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect… — Anna Quindlen Church Copy Share Image
I do think that people who are now in their sixties and their seventies are living a different kind of life than… — Anna Quindlen Active Copy Share Image
In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle… — Anna Quindlen Bread Copy Share Image
I'm just remembering myself at 22 or 23. I was all engine and no steering. (Laughter) I had the wheels but I… — Anna Quindlen Behave Copy Share Image
what we call things matters. ... The words we use, and how we perceive those words, reflect how we value, or devalue,… — Anna Quindlen Devalue Copy Share Image
Choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work. — Anna Quindlen Baby Copy Share Image
Novels are usually built on conflict, sometimes very, very difficult conflict. It's why men write war novels - because there you go,… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
I grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and one of the things I like to say is that one of the… — Anna Quindlen Becoming Copy Share Image
For many years, despite what I thought were really punitive decisions about women in the church, I stayed and stayed and stayed.… — Anna Quindlen Catholic Copy Share Image
Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. And the results always illusory. — Anna Quindlen Illusory Copy Share Image
When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around. — Anna Quindlen Around Copy Share Image
That is supposed to be the rallying cry of women in the age of AIDS: no condom, no sex. But the dirty… — Anna Quindlen Age Copy Share Image
People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage… — Anna Quindlen Blame Copy Share Image
There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I… — Anna Quindlen Boys Copy Share Image
If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the… — Anna Quindlen Elude Copy Share Image
I do get a sense that there's a huge disconnect between the political powers and what's really happening, so right-wing conservatives can… — Anna Quindlen America Copy Share Image
No one thinks anything silly is suitable when they are an adolescent. Such an enormous share of their own behavior is silly… — Anna Quindlen Age Copy Share Image
“Our ability to understand, to embrace, to help, to know, to feel and to love is bounded only by our own emotional… — Anna Quindlen Life Copy Share Image
“My husband and I have together created three children, but we have separate finances, and that’s the way I like it.” — Anna Quindlen Children Copy Share Image
