Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.
Anna QuindlenHowever, there will be a Republican Party platform that will coalesce around their convention. Unless I miss my guess, it will be considerably more conservative on these issues, perhaps even than Governor Romney is, and I think that that will give Americans a clear set of choices about all issues, but about women's issues too.
Anna QuindlenThe truth is that when you're writing a novel you're really living in it; you're living in the house, and you're living in the town.
Anna QuindlenI will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.
Anna QuindlenMore than a decade after our fellow citizens began bedding down on the sidewalks, their problems continue to seem so intractable that we have begun to do psychologically what government has been incapable of doing programmatically. We bring the numbers down--not by solving the problem, but by deciding it's their own damn fault.
Anna Quindlen