This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver's seat… — Anna Quindlen Children Copy Share Image
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. — Anna Quindlen Becoming yourself Copy Share Image
“In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been… — Anna Quindlen England Copy Share Image
When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about… — Anna Quindlen Actresses Copy Share Image
There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I… — Anna Quindlen Boys Copy Share Image
We take our vitamins, we go to exercise class, we put on our seat belts. And then something blindsides us and gives… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Anyone familiar with the love affairs between men and women could have told them that theirs would soon be over.” — Anna Quindlen Love Copy Share Image
The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a… — Anna Quindlen Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as… — Anna Quindlen Female Copy Share Image
“It's odd when I think of the arc of my life, from child to young woman to aging adult. First I was… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
Sure smokers have made personal choices. And they pay for those choices every day, whether sitting through an airline flight dyingfor a… — Anna Quindlen Addiction Copy Share Image
London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences;… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who… — Anna Quindlen Beach Copy Share Image
So carry your courage in an easily accessible place, the way you do your cellphone or your wallet. You may still falter… — Anna Quindlen Career Copy Share Image
I do get a sense that there's a huge disconnect between the political powers and what's really happening, so right-wing conservatives can… — Anna Quindlen America Copy Share Image
I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been… — Anna Quindlen Autobiography Copy Share Image
We don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty… — Anna Quindlen Ambivalence Copy Share Image
“It’s an essential part of maturing, putting fear aside, because if there’s anything that cripples us it is fear.” — Anna Quindlen Fear Copy Share Image
I always have music on unless I'm reading aloud, which I always do before I hand anything in. It's the only way… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if… — Anna Quindlen America Copy Share Image
She say guilt is a useless emotion." "Oh, please," says Nancy. "Guilt is what separates humans from animals. — Anna Quindlen Animal Copy Share Image
I don't know what I would do in the world without [female friends] for advice, for comfort, for simply knowing that there… — Anna Quindlen Advice Copy Share Image
What's really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. — Anna Quindlen Becoming yourself Copy Share Image
Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think there was a long period of time when we got real invested in a youth culture, and not coincidentally it… — Anna Quindlen Baby Copy Share Image
A writer is always working with whatever she's managed to store in the brainpan or puzzle out about the world. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are… — Anna Quindlen Book Copy Share Image
“It is interesting to note how often a technological development—such as Gutenberg’s—promotes rather than eliminates that which it is supposed to supersede.” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“For those of us who suspect all the mysteries of life are contained in the microcosm of the family, that personal relationships… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific… — Anna Quindlen Daughter Copy Share Image
I was doing the family grocery shopping accompanied by two children, an event I hope to see included in the Olympics in… — Anna Quindlen Children Copy Share Image
“Maybe that was true of marriage everywhere. Between times, in their own living rooms, the men seemed to be resting for the… — Anna Quindlen Marriage Copy Share Image
Let me say first that reading is my favorite pastime, bar none. If I couldn't read, I don't know what I'd do.… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
All of life like a series of tableaux, and in the living we missed so much, hid so much, left so much… — Anna Quindlen Life Copy Share Image
“My friendships have a certain symmetry at the moment: Alice is always asking me what she should do, and Nancy is always… — Anna Quindlen Friendship Copy Share Image
You teach your 16-year-old with your heart in your mouth to be a good driver and none of that makes any difference… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“it is the only time I can rest without sleeping, think without deciding, speak and hear my own voice. It is the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box. — Anna Quindlen Adolescence Copy Share Image
![“Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives." [ Turning the Page: The future of reading is backlit and bright , Newsweek Magazine, March 25, 2010]” quote by Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/926/anna-quindlen-467_books_reading-is-not-simply-an-intellectual-pu_953665.png)
![“London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, door, passsage, door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand.” quote by Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf8/anna-quindlen-467_books_london-opens-to-you-like-a-novel-itself_3073362.png)
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