Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones. — Anna Quindlen Child Copy Share Image
I know a lot and have written a lot and have thought a lot about motherhood. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think when people keep saying to you, "You're good at this," you just keep doing it. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility. — Anna Quindlen Cat Copy Share Image
I think that we really fool ourselves about our ability to be safe and secure nowadays. — Anna Quindlen Ability Copy Share Image
The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Socialized medicine, some still cry, but it's long been socialized, with those covered paying for those who are underinsured. American medicine is… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I really feel like I'm a liberal because I'm a Catholic, because I took the words of the New Testament to heart. — Anna Quindlen Catholic Copy Share Image
There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
A safety net of small white lies can be the bedrock of a successful marriage. You wouldn't believe how cheaply I can… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing… — 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
Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of… — Anna Quindlen Communication Copy Share Image
And I don't have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It's almost as if… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“I know from experience that those least capable of truly assessing any marriage are the children who come out of it. We… — Anna Quindlen Child Copy Share Image
The reason child care is such a loaded issue is that when we talk about it, we are always tacitly talking about… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. You toodle along, thinking that all gay men wear leather after dark and should never,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Young men kill someone for a handful of coins, then are remorseless, even casual: Hey, man, things happen. And their parents nab… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Uncontrollable consumerism has become a watchword of our culture despite regular and compelling calls for its end. The United States has more… — 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
“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
“Someday, sometime, you will be sitting somewhere. A berm overlooking a pond in Vermont. The lip of the Grand Canyon at sunset.… — Anna Quindlen Black hole Copy Share Image
If God is watching us, as some believers suggest, as though we were a television show and God had a lot of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“valley? That should be interesting for you.” “I haven’t decided what I’m doing yet.” “I’d be happy to help,” Mr. Bally said.… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think at every moment in the last probably 100 years, when the institutional church had the opportunity to do the right… — Anna Quindlen Church Copy Share Image
“How many times had she heard women in New York - maybe women everywhere, for all she knew - speak lyrically of… — Anna Quindlen Friendship Copy Share Image
Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried… — Anna Quindlen Avon Copy Share Image
There are obvious places in which government can narrow the chasm between haves and have-nots. One is the public schools, which have… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“The rituals surrounding vacations among Manhattan's wealthiest and best-connected citizens are strange and specific. By vacations I don't mean country houses, which… — Anna Quindlen Ebb and flow Copy Share Image
It's only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions. — Anna Quindlen Delusion Copy Share Image
Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience. — Anna Quindlen Daughter Copy Share Image
I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“For the young the days go fast and the years go slow; for the old the days go slow and the years… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“The essential London scenes is a row of low identical houses set around a square.” — Anna Quindlen Cities Copy Share Image
“Words, words. They mean nothing, less than nothing. I know.” — Anna Quindlen Language Copy Share Image
“You can tell a really wonderful quote by the fact that it's attributed to a whole raft of wits.” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit. — Anna Quindlen Crafts Copy Share Image
