Quotes by : Anna Quindlen

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work....

Sometimes I live so much in my mind that I forget what is right before my eyes.

For so long I'd thought about myself as a girl who'd walked away from her mother's life that it would....

I prize my downtime, count on it as a writer, a parent, a person. Sometimes I think of Woody Allen's....

Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures....

A finished person is a boring person.

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our....

The curse of having young people about the house was that they were always so redolent of possibility.....

London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for....