I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.
Anna QuindlenStereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time.
Anna QuindlenI'm very optimistic. I think if you would describe me, my pretty consistent affect is that I'm a pretty happy person.
Anna QuindlenThere may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an irony it would be if fanatics continued to kill and yet it was the apathy and silence of the medical profession that most wounded the ability to provide what is, after all, a medical procedure.
Anna Quindlen