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 Copy Share Image
You're like a cake when you're young. You can't rush it or it will fall, or just turn out wrong. Rising takes… — Anna Quindlen 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
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
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
People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I'm just remembering myself at 22 or 23. I was all engine and no steering. (Laughter) I had the wheels but I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think that after a while you realize that your husband can't be all things to you and certainly you don't want… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The Cairo conferenceis about a complicated web of education and employment, consumption and poverty, development and health care. It is also about… — Anna Quindlen Birth Copy Share Image
At the same time that you've got to open yourself up to the fact that experience is going to teach you year… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Like so many of the other books I read, it never seemed to me like a book, but like a place I… — Anna Quindlen Book Copy Share Image
All things being equal, I would choose a woman over a man in order to even the balance of power, to insinuate… — Anna Quindlen 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
February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child,… — Anna Quindlen Child Copy Share Image
New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a… — Anna Quindlen 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 Copy Share Image
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
I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The one thing that I always got positive reinforcement for from teachers, who really changed my life, was the written word. — Anna Quindlen 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
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
I go online all the time, I just don't read about myself. I read a fashion website called Go Fug Yourself. I… — Anna Quindlen Fashion Copy Share Image
You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“I've discovered that sometimes writing badly can eventually lead to something better. Not writing at all leads to nothing.” — Anna Quindlen Writer Copy Share Image
But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn… — Anna Quindlen Child Copy Share Image
Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within… — Anna Quindlen Book Copy Share Image
I think one of the hardest things about doing a book in the first person is that to a certain extent each… — Anna Quindlen Book Copy Share Image
I don't have to listen to the Gospel on Sunday to know the stories of the New Testament. They inform so much… — Anna Quindlen Brain Copy Share Image
And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were. — Anna Quindlen Child Copy Share Image
“Perhaps only when we've made our peace with our own selves can we really be the kind of friends who listen, advise,… — Anna Quindlen Friend Copy Share Image
In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle… — Anna Quindlen Bread Copy Share Image
the most sacred business of judges is not to ratify the will of the majority but to protect the minority from its… — Anna Quindlen Business Copy Share Image
“Our ability to understand, to embrace, to help, to know, to feel and to love is bounded only by our own emotional… — Anna Quindlen Life Copy Share Image
“Even in a marriage as truncated as her own—nine years, more or less—most of it is the mundane middle part. That was… — Anna Quindlen Marriage Copy Share Image
I think the very best thing about the internet is that I can read all the London papers every day if I… — Anna Quindlen Best things Copy Share Image
It's an odd kind of feeling because it sort of reminds me of being five again. When you're a five-year-old, you don't… — Anna Quindlen Attention Copy Share Image
The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided ever more reasons for its spiritual solace. Emails are… — Anna Quindlen Age Copy Share Image
