Anna Quindlen Quotes

A finished person is a boring person.

My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room and I realized that out of a sea of infinite possibilities it had come down to this: a specific person born on the hottest day of the year conceived on a Christmas Eve made by his father and me miraculously from scratch.

You can tell a really wonderful quote by the fact that it's attributed to a whole raft of wits.

In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been madamed once, by the doorman at the Carlyle Hotel.

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.

.. at a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now.

I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility.

I've discovered that sometimes writing badly can eventually lead to something better. Not writing at all leads to nothing.