I was a kid who sometimes got in trouble because I couldn't keep my mouth shut, which turned out to be an… — Anna Quindlen Advantage Copy Share Image
We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind. — Anna Quindlen Bed Copy Share Image
People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage… — Anna Quindlen Acquire Copy Share Image
Some of the most important lessons I've learned have been from stumbling, and I am deeply grateful that my parents allowed me… — Anna Quindlen Battle 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
There's some muscle group around your shoulders that seizes up during the perfection dance and doesn't let go until you are asleep,… — Anna Quindlen Dance Copy Share Image
I was very driven, very focused, very ambitious. I mean, when I look back on myself in my 20s, part of me… — Anna Quindlen Ambitious Copy Share Image
Over the last twenty years, we've changed the world just enough to make it radically different, but not enough to make it… — Anna Quindlen Changed Copy Share Image
However, there will be a Republican Party platform that will coalesce around their convention. Unless I miss my guess, it will be… — Anna Quindlen Choices Copy Share Image
It is this that, finally, I will try to teach my sons about sex, after I've explained fertile periods and birth control… — Anna Quindlen Believe 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
WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE WOMEN THAT HAVE MADE A REAL DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD THROUGHOUT HISTORY, WHAT THEY’VE DONE HAS ALMOST… — Anna Quindlen Differences Copy Share Image
You just can't tell or calibrate motive or intelligence or sense. So I don't read anything unless someone tells me that it's… — Anna Quindlen Illuminating 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 Child Copy Share Image
People who are knowledgeable about poetry sometimes discuss it in that knowing, rather hateful way in which oenophiles talk about wine: robust,… — Anna Quindlen Around the corner Copy Share Image
... It was the idea of facing a future skimming the surface of life, winging my way in and out of other… — Anna Quindlen Confusion Copy Share Image
After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that… — Anna Quindlen Enough Copy Share Image
You teach your 16-year-old with your heart in your mouth to be a good driver and none of that makes any difference… — Anna Quindlen Corners Copy Share Image
Let me say first that reading is my favorite pastime, bar none. If I couldn't read, I don't know what I'd do.… — Anna Quindlen Bars Copy Share Image
All of life like a series of tableaux, and in the living we missed so much, hid so much, left so much… — Anna Quindlen Life Copy Share Image
The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific… — Anna Quindlen Daughter 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 Austen Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are… — Anna Quindlen Book Copy Share Image
A writer is always working with whatever she's managed to store in the brainpan or puzzle out about the world. — Anna Quindlen Always working Copy Share Image
Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby,… — Anna Quindlen Addict Copy Share Image
She say guilt is a useless emotion." "Oh, please," says Nancy. "Guilt is what separates humans from animals. — Anna Quindlen Animal Copy Share Image
Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if… — Anna Quindlen America Copy Share Image
I always have music on unless I'm reading aloud, which I always do before I hand anything in. It's the only way… — Anna Quindlen Aloud Copy Share Image
We don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty… — Anna Quindlen Ambivalence 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
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
“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
I'm not making light of prayers here, but of so-called school prayer, which bears as much resemblance to real spiritual experienceas that… — Anna Quindlen Astronaut Copy Share Image
I don't understand how people learn to live in the world if they haven't had siblings. Everything I learned about negotiation, territoriality,… — Anna Quindlen And love Copy Share Image
I think the gift of my mother's death, if anything so terrible can be said to have an upside to it, is… — Anna Quindlen Book Copy Share Image
the more humdrum aspects of life do not make for gripping reading. To render them compelling, a writer must describe the universal… — Anna Quindlen Alas 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
“It sounded so promising. As if this would be the day. The day to ride a bike without training wheels. To make… — Anna Quindlen Fitness 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
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
![“As I looked at [my future husband] I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.” quote by Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b66/anna-quindlen-467_future-husband_as-i-looked-at-my-future-husband-i-reali_770170.jpg)
