“It sounded so promising. As if this would be the day. The day to ride a bike without training wheels. To make… — Anna Quindlen Fitness Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a tough time for parent and child alike. It is a time between: between childhood and maturity, between parental protection… — Anna Quindlen Adolescence Copy Share Image
If I had to guess what the new Etch-A-Sketch picture is going to be like, it's going to be considerably less to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Anyone who has breast-fed knows two things for sure: The baby wants to be fed at the most inopportune times, in the… — Anna Quindlen Baby Copy Share Image
the more humdrum aspects of life do not make for gripping reading. To render them compelling, a writer must describe the universal… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
For many years, despite what I thought were really punitive decisions about women in the church, I stayed and stayed and stayed.… — Anna Quindlen Catholic Copy Share Image
We are writers. We danced with words, as children, in what became familiar patterns. The words became our friends and our companions,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Americans like warm characters. It's why, no matter what he did in the early days, they kind of resonated to Bill Clinton… — Anna Quindlen Beer 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 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
[I]n contrast to the common belief that they are the world's greatest cynics, the best journalists are the world's great idealists. They… — Anna Quindlen 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
People who are knowledgeable about poetry sometimes discuss it in that knowing, rather hateful way in which oenophiles talk about wine: robust,… — Anna Quindlen 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
There are those of us who believe that under certain conditions the cruelest thing you can do to people you love is… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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