So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness.

- Anna Quindlen

Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.

- Anna Quindlen

My mother was an incredibly loving mother.

- Anna Quindlen

Your hair isn't quite right and maybe you're a size bigger than you should be and on and on and on. I think there comes a moment when you've matured …

- Anna Quindlen

I got a fortune cookie that said, "To remember is to understand." I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like to be a lawyer. …

- Anna Quindlen

Today is the only guarantee you get.

- Anna Quindlen

And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.

- Anna Quindlen

What had I expected of the first child? Everything. Rocket scientist. Neurosurgeon. Designated hitter. We talked wisely at cocktail parties about the…

- Anna Quindlen

Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is really hard,…

- Anna Quindlen