“...I had enough of real life everyday to last me forever.” — Anna Quindlen Everyday Copy Share Image
Sometimes we don't see out of our peripheral vision what's coming right around the corner. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us. — Anna Quindlen Death Copy Share Image
knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us. — Anna Quindlen Death Copy Share Image
Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time. — Anna Quindlen Bigotry Copy Share Image
The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed, — Anna Quindlen Animal Copy Share Image
“Out lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.” — Anna Quindlen Happenstance Copy Share Image
I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If we really feel like we're comfortable in our own skins now, we have a longer period of time to live out… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Wow, so much of the way I've transacted my life... so much of the results that I'm happy about are because of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Reading is another thing that has made me more human by exposing me to worlds I might never have entered and people… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It is so easy to waste our lives: Our days, our hours, our minutes ... it is so easy to exist instead… — Anna Quindlen Clock ticking Copy Share Image
While liberals had embraced Obama as someone who had left-wing progressive ideas, the truth is that by personality he's a very incremental… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“All of reading is really only finding ways to name ourselves, and, perhaps, to name the others around us so that they… — Anna Quindlen Reading Copy Share Image
“It’s one of the best parts of growing up and growing older, I think, that feeling that you’ll just get through one… — Anna Quindlen Growing old Copy Share Image
London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason… — Anna Quindlen Book Copy Share Image
It is difficult for me to imagine the same dedication to women's rights on the part of the kind of man who… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
As I said, I had this fabulous college education. At college I met the man to whom I've been married for 34… — Anna Quindlen College Copy Share Image
I'm boggled by the idea of being an only child. I know nothing at all (I'm happy to say) about having had… — Anna Quindlen Autobiography Copy Share Image
“A loose end - that's what we woman call it, when we are overwhelmed by the care of small children, the weight… — Anna Quindlen Children Copy Share Image
A friend and I flew south with our children. During the week we spent together I took off my shoes, let down… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of men: men who want a wife who is predictable, and men who want a wife who is… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“there is still a kind of unique loneliness to child rearing for women. We so often do it in isolation. Add to… — Anna Quindlen Children Copy Share Image
Jason Oliver C. Smith, a big dumb guy who was tan, died March 30 of lung cancer and old age. He was… — Anna Quindlen Adults Copy Share Image
One of the things that got me on this topic for this book was that when I was researching the column I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
And yet we constantly reclaim some part of that primal spontaneity through the youngest among us, not only through their sorrow and… — Anna Quindlen Body Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it was that I wanted to see what I had learned, what I had read, what I had imagined, that I… — Anna Quindlen Cities Copy Share Image
“Who says great literatue has to be written by men? Who says great literature has to be about scary, creepy stuff like… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
“Here is my favorite biblical direction: Be not afraid. It's truly the secret of life. Fear is what stunts our growth, narrows… — Anna Quindlen Courage Copy Share Image
