A writer is always working with whatever she's managed to store in the brainpan or puzzle out about the world.
Anna QuindlenThe clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.
Anna QuindlenWe don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty is American.
Anna QuindlenWell, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting older than we pretend. It was interesting to me when I first started working on this book that I'd mentioned that I was writing a memoir about aging and everybody would moan and groan and carry on.
Anna Quindlen