“reading has as many functions as the human body, and... not all of them are cerebral.” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have. — Anna Quindlen Aspiration Copy Share Image
“There are ways and ways of dying, and some of them leave you walking around.” — Anna Quindlen Death Copy Share Image
“I thought I had a handle on my future. But the future, it turns out, is not a tote bag.” — Anna Quindlen Future Copy Share Image
“She wants to be someone else, somewhere else, and I can't blame her.” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
That's what makes life so hard for women, that instead of thinking that this is the way things are, we always think… — Anna Quindlen Feminism Copy Share Image
If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“You can keep the sectional,"she'd said. He hadn't, although it had been a bitch getting it out of the house, and he'd… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The Statue of Liberty is meant to be shorthand for a country so unlike its parts that a trip from California to… — Anna Quindlen California Copy Share Image
“Peter was easing up on seventy, an age when a man might be forgiven follicular failure. But Rebecca forgave him nothing. She… — Anna Quindlen Failure Copy Share Image
People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I've been a feminist since I was a teenager, but originally it was because I wanted to make the world a better… — Anna Quindlen Better place Copy Share Image
Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life… — Anna Quindlen Attention Copy Share Image
“There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“But I’ve finally recognized my body for what it is: a personality delivery system, designed expressly to carry my character from place… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Now the baby boomers, i.e., us, are getting older, and were suddenly discovering that there are great things about getting older. You… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's what the Taliban does in Afghanistan, it's what gets done in the Middle East, and it's clearly something that certain mainly… — Anna Quindlen Afghanistan Copy Share Image
The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over… — Anna Quindlen Apples Copy Share Image
The gender gap looks at this point like it's going to favor the president, particularly among white suburban women. I certainly think… — Anna Quindlen Election Copy Share Image
You realize that especially when you're writing a book like this, looking back on your life, that there's just such a depth… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. And the results always illusory. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you say a word so many times that it loses its meaning...” — Anna Quindlen Language Copy Share Image
“There are only two ways, really, to become a writer. One is to write. The other is to read.” — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
I do think there's some aspect of being a novelist that is a little crazy making. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be cheap, too. — Anna Quindlen Birth Copy Share Image
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. — Anna Quindlen Book Copy Share Image
I think there are some stories that need to be told by a specific person as opposed to in the third person. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The difference between government and leadership is that leadership has a soul. — Anna Quindlen Differences Copy Share Image
I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before. — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. — Anna Quindlen Books for kids Copy Share Image
When men do the dishes, it's called helping. When women do the dishes, it is called life. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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