what we call things matters. ... The words we use, and how we perceive those words, reflect how we value, or devalue, people, places, and things.
Anna QuindlenIf God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.
Anna QuindlenYou want to have fun with your kids, and no one has fun with someone who runs roughshod.
Anna QuindlenI hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives.
Anna Quindlen