There's something undeniable about the posture of a person trying not to acknowledge your existance — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think we now know the limits also of intelligence and rhetoric. — Anna Quindlen Intelligence Copy Share Image
“books became the greatest purveyors of truth, and the truth shall make you free.” — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
That's really what I want in a leader; I want somebody who's really, really smart. — Anna Quindlen Intelligence Copy Share Image
We almost manage to forget that things happen that we don't anticipate. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The New Testament has had a really powerful effect on how I write and how I live my life. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“The women I know who are happiest today are the ones who have close female friends. Maybe that’s true of men, too,… — Anna Quindlen Female friends Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is the kind of guy who likes to do things by inches, he's the kind of guy who likes to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked. — Anna Quindlen Abuse Copy Share Image
“It's a funny thing, hope. It's not like love, or fear, or hate. It's a feeling you don't really know you had… — Anna Quindlen Fear Copy Share Image
I'm going to live long enough to live in an America that will assume universal health care is a basic right. That… — Anna Quindlen America Copy Share Image
The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“I want to be able to remember it all, not just the books but the newsrooms and the playgroups and the bad… — Anna Quindlen Aging 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 Bleak house Copy Share Image
Your kids are launched. You love your work but you understand how to place it in the panorama of the rest of… — Anna Quindlen Book Copy Share Image
“There was a period when I believed stuff meant something. I thought that if you had matching side chairs and a sofa… — Anna Quindlen Beauty Copy Share Image
“I'm fine," she said. But her smile was bleak, without light or warmth. And for the first time I thought of what… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“She had filled her days mourning that shadow life, and it had no more meaning than the chattering of monkeys. Instead, these… — Anna Quindlen Heart Copy Share Image
What I expect from my male friends is that they are polite and clean. What I expect from my female friends is… — Anna Quindlen Ability Copy Share Image
“It's funny, isn't it, what will make you break? Your lover moves to London and falls in love with a news reader… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I… — Anna Quindlen Aspirations Copy Share Image
“Other people used photographs as a way to keep close to the events of their lives; she had used them as a… — Anna Quindlen Art Copy Share Image
“I remember the first year after my second child was born, what I can remember of it at all, as a year… — Anna Quindlen Children Copy Share Image
“to a surprising conclusion about this moment in our lives. No, it’s not that there are weird freckly spots on the back… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Set aside the old traditional notion of female as nurturer and male as leader; set aside, too, the new traditional notion of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“I read and reread and recommended and rarely rejected, became one of those readers who will read trashy stories as long as… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
“Yet there was always in me, even when I was very small, the sense that I ought to be somewhere else. And… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
