The Statue of Liberty is meant to be shorthand for a country so unlike its parts that a trip from California to Indiana should require a passport.
Anna QuindlenI don't do research for my novels. Obviously, in my other line of work as a reporter and a columnist, I've had the opportunity to get to know both social workers and TV talk-show hosts.
Anna QuindlenBut never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.
Anna QuindlenWhen I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of the book.
Anna QuindlenWow, so much of the way I've transacted my life... so much of the results that I'm happy about are because of what Daddy did.
Anna QuindlenLondon has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always have meaning for the future, because of all it can teach about disaster, survival, and redemption. It is all there in the streets. It is all there in the books.
Anna Quindlen