high fashion has little to do with what women wear and a lot to do with what retailers mark down later. — Anna Quindlen Fashion Copy Share Image
“He’d had a dog once, in that way he’d had everything in his childhood, ordinary but a lot less lasting.” — Anna Quindlen Childhood Copy Share Image
When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“The curse of having young people about the house was that they were always so redolent of possibility.” — Anna Quindlen Curse Copy Share Image
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. — Anna Quindlen Book Copy Share Image
All the things we don’t say, all the words we swallow, and it makes nothing but trouble. — Anna Quindlen Language Copy Share Image
You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with. — Anna Quindlen American women Copy Share Image
I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The truth is that when you're writing a novel you're really living in it; you're living in the house, and you're living… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be… — Anna Quindlen Being honest Copy Share Image
Obama doesn't seem like a burger and a beer kind of guy. I have to say, I don't find that problematic at… — Anna Quindlen Beer Copy Share Image
If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the… — Anna Quindlen Catholic Copy Share Image
The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that courage is the thing that you need more than any other thing. It's fear that cripples us. It's… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more… — Anna Quindlen Food 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 always keeping an eye on the court. Also, when the members of Congress came to his office during the budget debacle… — Anna Quindlen Budgets Copy Share Image
Sometimes change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar… — Anna Quindlen Change Copy Share Image
That is supposed to be the rallying cry of women in the age of AIDS: no condom, no sex. But the dirty… — Anna Quindlen Age Copy Share Image
an the president bring out the voters who were so enthusiastic about him in 2008 and seem a little disenchanted now? Can… — Anna Quindlen Disenchanted Copy Share Image
God bless the physician who warms the speculum or holds your hand and looks into your eyes. Perhaps one subtext of the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
There may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an… — Anna Quindlen Ability Copy Share Image
Having children can smooth the relationship, too. Mother and daughter are now equals. That is hard to imagine, even harder to accept,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“How many times in the past three months have I been reminded of Ruby's two selves, the careful courteous young woman who… — Anna Quindlen Real woman Copy Share Image
The best thing about Sassy Seats is that grandmothers cannot figure out how they work and are in constant fear of the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“One day she had been out walking and she had wondered whether she had become a different person in the last year,…… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
What usually happens is that when I'm nearing the end of one novel a vague idea about what I want to do… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“It had turned out that climbing a tree was more difficult than it looked. It was harder than warrior pose in yoga,… — Anna Quindlen Climbing Copy Share Image
Being accused of making money by selling sex in Hollywood, home of the casting couch and the gratuitous nude scene, is so… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“One of the most important parts of tending our friendships is working our way, over time, into the kind of friendships that… — Anna Quindlen Friendship Copy Share Image
If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Catastrophe is numerical. Loss is singular, one beloved at a time. — Anna Quindlen Beloved Copy Share Image
Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning. — Anna Quindlen Morning Copy Share Image
Barack Obama presents as kind of a cool character, and I think that that's his natural personality. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“I hid my wounds because I was ashamed...but now I know that I was also afraid of being reduced..” — Anna Quindlen Ashamed Copy Share Image
“...there is a piece of me missing so big that the pain doubles me over, clawing at my gut...” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
