Anna Quindlen

If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I…

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition…

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don’t discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss…

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman…

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves – once they’ve learned the rules…

I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the…

I’m sure not afraid of success and I’ve learned not to be afraid of failure…

Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks…

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse…

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are…

But it’s important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many…

After all those years as a woman hearing ‘not thin enough, not pretty enough, not…

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of…

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with…

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect…