I'm going to live long enough to live in an America that will assume universal health care is a basic right. That will be amusing and terrific.
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 QuindlenIf I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.
Anna QuindlenWhile we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who read too much, whatever reading too much means, of being lazy, aimless dreamers, people who need to grow up and come outside to where real life is, who think themselves superior in their separateness.
Anna Quindlen