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
Women writers of all people should know better than to pigeonhole women, put them in little groups, the smart one, the sweet… — Anna Quindlen Feminism 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
I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box. — Anna Quindlen Adolescence 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
As I said, I had this fabulous college education. At college I met the man to whom I've been married for 34… — Anna Quindlen College 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
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
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
“it is the only time I can rest without sleeping, think without deciding, speak and hear my own voice. It is the… — Anna Quindlen Time 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
“My friendships have a certain symmetry at the moment: Alice is always asking me what she should do, and Nancy is always… — Anna Quindlen Friendship 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
What's 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
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
“It’s an essential part of maturing, putting fear aside, because if there’s anything that cripples us it is fear.” — Anna Quindlen Fear 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
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
