Anna Quindlen

I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much. ”

Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you. ”

I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person. ”

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around. ”

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage. ”

A finished person is a boring person. ”

The 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. ”

But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated. ”

I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display. ”

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle. ”