Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules. — 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
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
Having children can smooth the relationship, too. Mother and daughter are now equals. That is hard to imagine, even harder to accept,… — Anna Quindlen Accepting Copy Share Image
That's what makes life so hard for women, that instead of thinking that this is the way things are, we always think… — Anna Quindlen Hard Copy Share Image
So you're getting squeezed at both sides. You're taking care of your mom and dad and you're still doing caregiving with your… — Anna Quindlen Both sides 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
Down time is where we become ourselves... a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels… — Anna Quindlen Boredom Copy Share Image
Ethnic stereotypes are misshapen pearls, sometimes with a sandy grain of truth at their center. ... but they ignore complexity, change, and individuality. — Anna Quindlen Change Copy Share Image
I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person. — Anna Quindlen Comfortable Copy Share Image
Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and… — Anna Quindlen Being a parent Copy Share Image
“I've always thought that Freud's theory of penis envy was fairly ridiculous -- but I'm absolutely certain that if you put a… — Anna Quindlen Humor Copy Share Image
“reading has as many functions as the human body, and... not all of them are cerebral.” — Anna Quindlen Human body Copy Share Image
I'm a Catholic of the New Testament, I'm not a Catholic of the hierarchy. — Anna Quindlen Bible 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
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
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
“She is not what I envied in high school, the popular girl. She is something I'm not even sure existed then, the… — Anna Quindlen High school Copy Share Image
Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life… — Anna Quindlen Attention Copy Share Image
Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of… — Anna Quindlen Candle 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
The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male… — Anna Quindlen Explanation Copy Share Image
“People froze you in place, Rebecca sometimes thought, trudging through the woods. More important, you froze yourself, often into a person in… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that,… — Anna Quindlen Changed Copy Share Image
There's no greater happiness than doing something every day that you love, that you feel you do in a satisfactory fashion, and… — Anna Quindlen Every day Copy Share Image
