In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.
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 QuindlenThis is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver's seat and keeping quiet.
Anna QuindlenMaybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die.
Anna Quindlenthe separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government.
Anna QuindlenGrief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us. It is a whisper in the world and a clamor within. More than sex, more than faith, even more than its usher death, grief is unspoken, publicly ignored except for those moments at the funeral that are over too quickly, or the conversations among the cognoscenti, those of us who recognize in one another a kindred chasm deep in the center of who we are.
Anna Quindlen