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
“There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“But I’ve finally recognized my body for what it is: a personality delivery system, designed expressly to carry my character from place… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Now the baby boomers, i.e., us, are getting older, and were suddenly discovering that there are great things about getting older. You… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous,… — Anna Quindlen Advice Copy Share Image
When hot dogs like Mr. D'Amato or the Republican apologist Roger Ailes say that Whitewater is worse than Watergate, it's because they're… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for… — Anna Quindlen Compromise Copy Share Image
If you want to write what the world is about, you have to write details...real life is in the dishes. Real life… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Maybe someday it will seem quaint that, during a time of plague, some of the parents of the 1990s wanted to deny… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Whenever one of you guys says people deal with bad stuff in their own way, it means you don't deal with it… — Anna Quindlen 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 haven't lost my faith, but I've lost my religion. I still believe in something so deeply. ... I've never really gotten… — Anna Quindlen Faith Copy Share Image
I'm writing this memoir from the perspective of somebody who's prosperous and has means. Having said that, one of the things that… — Anna Quindlen End of life Copy Share Image
What had I expected of the first child? Everything. Rocket scientist. Neurosurgeon. Designated hitter. We talked wisely at cocktail parties about the… — Anna Quindlen Children Copy Share Image
I think what saved me, as a writer, is that there are really two breaking points in my life. One was when… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours… — Anna Quindlen Book Copy Share Image
Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us. It is a whisper in the world and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Look around at the azaleas making fuchsia star bursts in spring; look at a full moon hanging silver in a black sky… — Anna Quindlen Astronomy Copy Share Image
I can't begin to predict how news will be delivered to readers in, say, 100 years. But I do know one thing… — Anna Quindlen Blogs Copy Share Image
“The ultimate act of bravery does not take place on a battlefield. It takes place in your heart, when you have the… — Anna Quindlen Bravery Copy Share Image
The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved.… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think Americans suspect, without even being able to articulate it, that we're at the end of the American century; that we're… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Raging crime, class warfare, invasive immigrants, light morals, public misbehavior. Always we convince ourselves that the parade of unwelcome and despised is… — Anna Quindlen Class warfare 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
“Part of the great wonder of reading is that it has the ability to make human beings feel more connected to one… — Anna Quindlen Point of view Copy Share Image
I only really understand myself, what I'm really thinking and feelings, when I've talked it over with my circle of female friends.… — Anna Quindlen Circles Copy Share Image
“My mother spoke, alive again inside my brain...She spoke and I listened to her, because I was afraid if I didn't her… — Anna Quindlen Mother Copy Share Image
The unemployment rate among the young in the United States is still very disconcerting, although we all know it's nowhere near as… — Anna Quindlen Approach Copy Share Image
You can get rid of the column. It's a little like staying at a hotel; you get used to the shape of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things I discovered, talking about your grandmother, is I did a search of my uses of the word… — Anna Quindlen 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 Copy Share Image
I got a fortune cookie that said, "To remember is to understand." I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what… — Anna Quindlen Advice Copy Share Image
Raising children is a spur-of-the-moment, seat-of-the-pants sort of deal, as any parent knows, particularly after an adult child says that his most… — Anna Quindlen Adult children Copy Share Image
“I know who we are, and how we got that way. We are writers. We danced with the words, as children, in… — Anna Quindlen Children Copy Share Image
You realize that these accidental decisions you make about changing jobs, about moving into an apartment where you make new friends and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I wondered why I hadn't loved that day more, why I hadn't savored every bit of it...why I hadn't known how good… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“[B]oth my husband and I are the eldest in largish families and both of us had childhoods punctuated by pregnancies, the weeklong… — Anna Quindlen Childhood Copy Share Image
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