I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehersal, and that today is… — Anna Quindlen Destination Copy Share Image
I stopped going to mass, and boy, it was painful for me, and it was certainly painful for my family, but I… — Anna Quindlen Behavior Copy Share Image
I'm going to live long enough to live in an America that will assume universal health care is a basic right. That… — Anna Quindlen America Copy Share Image
Frankly, I'm mainly telling the story to myself. Thinking about audience is too daunting, and worst case, invites you to homogenize, to… — Anna Quindlen Audience Copy Share Image
So I do think sometimes the political mechanism is completely disconnected from the people. However, what I will say is that history… — Anna Quindlen Breathless Copy Share Image
“As I looked at [my future husband] I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the… — Anna Quindlen Future husband Copy Share Image
“The women I know who are happiest today are the ones who have close female friends. Maybe that’s true of men, too,… — Anna Quindlen Female friends Copy Share Image
Raising children is a spur-of-the-moment, seat-of-the-pants sort of deal, as any parent knows, particularly after an adult child says that his most… — Anna Quindlen Adult children Copy Share Image
“it seem like he was training for the Olympics and I was the gold medal. No one had ever acted like I… — Anna Quindlen Gold medal Copy Share Image
The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved.… — Anna Quindlen Changed Copy Share Image
I like to say that my mother had a very ordinary life. From the outside it didn't look like there was anything… — Anna Quindlen Damn Copy Share Image
“The curse of having young people about the house was that they were always so redolent of possibility.” — Anna Quindlen Possibility Copy Share Image
Your hair isn't quite right and maybe you're a size bigger than you should be and on and on and on. I… — Anna Quindlen Bigger Copy Share Image
“How many times in the past three months have I been reminded of Ruby's two selves, the careful courteous young woman who… — Anna Quindlen Real woman Copy Share Image
“Falling apart is curling up into a fetal position and staying in bed for a week. What you were doing is having… — Anna Quindlen Falling apart Copy Share Image
But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to… — Anna Quindlen Busy Copy Share Image
“Whenever one of you guys says people deal with bad stuff in their own way, it means you don't deal with it… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it. — Anna Quindlen Can do Copy Share Image
There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into… — Anna Quindlen Life Copy Share Image
“Coincidentally the couple who had endowed it had lived in her parents’ building. They had had an eight-year-old with a pretty singing… — Anna Quindlen Old man Copy Share Image
In the same way the Brits had to get used to the idea that the sun had set on the British Empire,… — Anna Quindlen British Copy Share Image
If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe… — Anna Quindlen Children Copy Share Image
Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time. — Anna Quindlen Bigotry 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
