A finished person is a boring person.

— Anna Quindlen

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

— Anna Quindlen

All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.

— Anna Quindlen

A loose end - that's what we woman call it, when we are overwhelmed by the care of small children, the weight of small tasks, a life in which we fall into bed at the end of the day exhausted from being all things to all people.

— Anna Quindlen

A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.

— Anna Quindlen

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

— Anna Quindlen

. At a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now.

— Anna Quindlen

Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word have given them substance, given them life. And so we readers walk, and dream, and imagine, in the city where imagination found its great home.

— Anna Quindlen

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

— Anna Quindlen

But he told me that most of the time he stayed on the boardwalk, facing the water, just the way we were sitting now even when it got cold, and he had to wear his newspapers after he read them. And I asked him why. Why didn't he go to one of the shelters? Why didn't he check himself into the hospital for detox? And he just stared out at the ocean and said, "Look at the view, young lady. Look at the view.

— Anna Quindlen