Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the… — Anna Quindlen Enamored Copy Share Image
“I've always thought that Freud's theory of penis envy was fairly ridiculous -- but I'm absolutely certain that if you put a… — Anna Quindlen Envy Copy Share Image
I don't do research for my novels. Obviously, in my other line of work as a reporter and a columnist, I've had… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
My father really, really pushed me to excel in a way that I resented for years and then realized had really worked… — Anna Quindlen Father Copy Share Image
“There is so much obligatory generosity to being a good mother, a good wife, a good friend. Solitude is an acceptable form… — Anna Quindlen Friendship Copy Share Image
These are my words; this is their world, a world in which we can wear our gender on our sleeves, unabashedly, as… — Anna Quindlen Business Copy Share Image
New York is a city where it's particularly hard to be poor, not only because everything costs twice as much as it… — Anna Quindlen Affluence Copy Share Image
America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict… — Anna Quindlen America Copy Share Image
“Then when she really thought about it she realized she’d been becoming different people for as long as she could remember but… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
When hot dogs like Mr. D'Amato or the Republican apologist Roger Ailes say that Whitewater is worse than Watergate, it's because they're… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for… — Anna Quindlen Compromise Copy Share Image
Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous,… — Anna Quindlen Advice Copy Share Image
Reporters are not paid to operate in retrospect. Because when news begins to solidify into current events and finally harden intohistory, it… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The women of my mother's generation had, in the main, only one decision to make about their lives: who they would marry.… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Four A.M. and the darkness had a quality of inexorability and menace as though it would never lift, as though, without anyone… — Anna Quindlen Darkness Copy Share Image
Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential… — Anna Quindlen Addiction Copy Share Image
Now, a lot of people are challenged by the fact that a record number of people in their sixties have living parents,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Just remember that sometimes you drift into things, and then you can't get out of them. Not to decide is to decide.” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character… — Anna Quindlen Character Copy Share Image
A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a… — Anna Quindlen Carefree Copy Share Image
I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show… — Anna Quindlen Friend Copy Share Image
“Nearly everyone I meet expresses deep sympathy about the fact that I have never married. Sometimes I wonder why.” — Anna Quindlen Being single Copy Share Image
“Once again she had the odd sense that she had been missing something, seeing the world flat when everything was rounded.” — Anna Quindlen Heart Copy Share Image
“Oh, the loneliness, the loneliness. It lived inside her now like an illness, like a flu that could be ignored and then… — Anna Quindlen Loneliness Copy Share Image
Down time is where we become ourselves... a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels… — Anna Quindlen Boredom Copy Share Image
“When you look back on your life there are always times that you remember as the hard times, even if they're the… — Anna Quindlen Grief and loss Copy Share Image
“Maybe when you were a kid you were so unsure of yourself that every school year was a time of reinvention; maybe… — Anna Quindlen Time Copy Share Image
Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs… — Anna Quindlen Board games Copy Share Image
One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity. — Anna Quindlen Age Copy Share Image
I grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and one of the things I like to say is that one of the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“I don't even have a dog. I tell people I'm allergic so they won't think less of me. Instead I have a… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
“In a world that seems so uncertain, in lives that seem sometimes to ricochet from challenge to upheaval and back again, a… — Anna Quindlen Animal Copy Share Image
the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect… — Anna Quindlen Church Copy Share Image
“A book--the book that was, for some reason, THE book--can be reread, unchanged. Only we have changed. And that makes all the… — Anna Quindlen Book 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 Book Copy Share Image
Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're… — Anna Quindlen Father Copy Share Image
For most of my life the only ceremonies I've been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like… — Anna Quindlen Ceremonies Copy Share Image
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