I know that it's very dispiriting for people in their twenties, who expected to graduate from college, get their own apartments, get… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Writing for UrbanMoms has awarded me a multitude of amazing opportunities. I have traveled to new places; alone and with my family.… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I like to say that my mother had a very ordinary life. From the outside it didn't look like there was anything… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
On the other hand, I think that Governor Romney has to worry that his turnout is going to be low, that he… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If I waited long enough and said, "Okay, so what you're saying is you liked your life a lot better when you… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Jail sentences have many functions, but one is surely to send a message about what our society abhors and what it values.… — Anna Quindlen Abuse Copy Share Image
Fifty years ago, teachers said their top discipline problems were talking, chewing gum, making noise, and running in the halls. The current… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room, and I realized that out of a… — Anna Quindlen 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 Girl Copy Share Image
Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe… — Anna Quindlen Children Copy Share Image
The problem with freedom is that you just can't go back. Once people see what it means to be free people, you… — Anna Quindlen Fabulous Copy Share Image
Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good… — Anna Quindlen Ambitious Copy Share Image
I learned that if I ever claim sexual harassment, I will be confronted with every bozo I once dated, every women I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Falling apart is curling up into a fetal position and staying in bed for a week. What you were doing is having… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I haven't seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When members of the arts community… — Anna Quindlen Art Copy Share Image
Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
His [O.J. Simpson's] supporters lined the freeway to cheer him on Friday and commentators talked about his tragedy. Did those people see… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
By the time you kill and mount what you catch, it has lost that very thing that made it worth having. I… — Anna Quindlen Age Copy Share Image
When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job,… — Anna Quindlen Alive Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to imagine yourself in the future. It’s why people do so many dumb things, because they’re mired in the moment.… — Anna Quindlen Future Copy Share Image
I really feel like if you can get past your fear, if you can say, "Uh-uh, I'm afraid to do that and… — Anna Quindlen Fear Copy Share Image
I think the gift of my mother's death, if anything so terrible can be said to have an upside to it, is… — Anna Quindlen Book Copy Share Image
I don't understand how people learn to live in the world if they haven't had siblings. Everything I learned about negotiation, territoriality,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
When I quit The New York Times to be a fulltime mother, the voices of the world said I was nuts…But if… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“As I looked at [my future husband] I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the… — Anna Quindlen Future husband Copy Share Image
Parents have railed against shelters near schools, but no one has made any connection between the crazed consumerism of our kids and… — Anna Quindlen Cold Copy Share Image
I'm not making light of prayers here, but of so-called school prayer, which bears as much resemblance to real spiritual experienceas that… — Anna Quindlen Astronaut 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
“Nothing important, or meaningful, or beautiful, or interesting, or great ever came out of imitations. The thing that is really hard and… — Anna Quindlen Becoming yourself Copy Share Image
I had that feeling you have when you're watching a sad movie, sobbing at the heartbreak you are feeling at the same… — Anna Quindlen Cup of tea Copy Share Image
I do think that people who are now in their sixties and their seventies are living a different kind of life than… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them,… — Anna Quindlen Brother Copy Share Image
The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
So I do think sometimes the political mechanism is completely disconnected from the people. However, what I will say is that history… — Anna Quindlen Breathless Copy Share Image
While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that… — Anna Quindlen Culture Copy Share Image
I never think about issues when I'm working on a novel. Issues are things that happen to people in sufficient numbers to… — Anna Quindlen Attention Copy Share Image
A week in the hospital she had told us. A hysterectomy, she had said. It had seemed unremarkable to me in a… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
My sister is a public school teacher. She makes far far less money than I do, and gets almost no public attention… — Anna Quindlen Attention Copy Share Image
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