After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.' Anna Quindlen hearmorningovernight Change image and share on social
If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail. Anna Quindlen eludemailten Change image and share on social
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me. Anna Quindlen badbeachblank share on social
If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books. Anna Quindlen bookgodharvard Change image and share on social
There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too. Anna Quindlen emergencyformgreat Change image and share on social
I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display. Anna Quindlen carecoredisplay share on social
I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person. Anna Quindlen comfortablepersonpersonage Change image and share on social
Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around. Anna Quindlen doughideamake Change image and share on social
