Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around, and nearly every book represents what my son's third grade teacher refers… — Anna Quindlen Book 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
what we call things matters. ... The words we use, and how we perceive those words, reflect how we value, or devalue,… — Anna Quindlen 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 Bank account 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 the last couple of years of life for many, many people are the same as they were 50, 60, 70… — Anna Quindlen Couple Copy Share Image
“All my life I had known one thing for sure about myself, and that was that my life would never be her… — Anna Quindlen Life 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
“I was good with being alone, always liked it, but there's something about doing a job alone that you've always done with… — Anna Quindlen Being alone Copy Share Image
The Church does an enormous amount of good, and it carries one of the most valuable messages imaginable - that you should… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
In the same way the Brits had to get used to the idea that the sun had set on the British Empire,… — Anna Quindlen British Copy Share Image
I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that… — Anna Quindlen Care Copy Share Image
Predictions that unit cohesion could not survive honesty about sexual orientation were simply wrong. What does threaten morale arethe prolonged investigations, the… — Anna Quindlen 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
With reference to the younger generation..."If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not to go… — Anna Quindlen Aging Copy Share Image
The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a yearless… — Anna Quindlen Absence Copy Share Image
Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about… — Anna Quindlen Beginnings and endings 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
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
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
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
Keeping kids safe is sometimes a delusion. The world is a perilous place. Sometimes the kitchen is a perilous place. — Anna Quindlen Children Copy Share Image
“Life is haphazard. We plan, and then we deal when the plans go awry. Control is an illusion; best intentions are the… — Anna Quindlen Best intentions 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 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
My father expected his first child to be a boy, and when it didn't turn out that way he didn't let the… — Anna Quindlen Boys Copy Share Image
Poor kids are much more likely to become sick than their richer counterparts, but much less likely to have health insurance. Talk… — Anna Quindlen Care 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
Ask any woman how she makes it through the day, and she may mention her calendar, her to-do lists, her babysitter. But… — Anna Quindlen 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
This is why I had children: to offer them a perfect dream of childhood that can fill their souls as they grow… — Anna Quindlen Childhood 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 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 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
those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
