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
“My doctor says that, contrary to conventional wisdom, she doesn't believe our memories flag because of a drop in estrogen but because… — Anna Quindlen Conventional wisdom Copy Share Image
I don't really read what people write about me. Someone gives my novel one star; are they a troll? Are they someone… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
I know the difference now between dedication and infatuation. That doesn't mean I don't still get an enormous kick out of infatuation;:… — Anna Quindlen Adrenaline 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 Artist Copy Share Image
Kids and violent TV, violent TV and violence, violence and kids. The only people missing from this discussion are the parents. Where… — Anna Quindlen Children Copy Share Image
I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
“I’ve finally recognized my body for what it is: a personality-delivery system, designed expressly to carry my character from place to place,… — Anna Quindlen Personality Delivery Copy Share Image
Consider the lilies of the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby's ear. Read in the backyard with the sun on… — Anna Quindlen Baby Copy Share Image
“A loose end - that's what we woman call it, when we are overwhelmed by the care of small children, the weight… — Anna Quindlen Children Copy Share Image
I'm boggled by the idea of being an only child. I know nothing at all (I'm happy to say) about having had… — Anna Quindlen Autobiography Copy Share Image
It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted… — Anna Quindlen Avenues Copy Share Image
London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason… — Anna Quindlen Book Copy Share Image
What I expect from my male friends is that they are polite and clean. What I expect from my female friends is… — Anna Quindlen Ability Copy Share Image
“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
I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions… — Anna Quindlen American football 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 can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society. — Anna Quindlen Community 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
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
“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
All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women. — Anna Quindlen Columnists Copy Share Image
On social welfare the Church does so much good around the world - nuns running schools and homeless shelters, priests ministering to… — Anna Quindlen Around the world 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
I feel about exercise the same way that I feel about a few other things: that there is nothing wrong with it… — Anna Quindlen Adults 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
“The most memorable books from our childhoods are those that make us feel less alone, convince us that our own foibles and… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
“knew, that for a birthday or a holiday or simply a dinner party offering, they could bring her a snow globe. Except… — Anna Quindlen Dinner party Copy Share Image
I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been… — Anna Quindlen Autobiography 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
We take our vitamins, we go to exercise class, we put on our seat belts. And then something blindsides us and gives… — Anna Quindlen Belts Copy Share Image
“In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been… — Anna Quindlen England Copy Share Image
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. — Anna Quindlen Becoming yourself 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
For most of my life the only ceremonies I've been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like… — Anna Quindlen Ceremonies Copy Share Image
Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're… — Anna Quindlen Father Copy Share Image
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds but into my own. I learned who I was and who I… — Anna Quindlen Book Copy Share Image
“A book--the book that was, for some reason, THE book--can be reread, unchanged. Only we have changed. And that makes all the… — Anna Quindlen Book 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
the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
