Adolescence is a tough time for parent and child alike. It is a time between: between childhood and maturity, between parental protection and personal responsibility, between life stage- managed by grown-ups and life privately held. Anna Quindlen
I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions and collide. Besides, I have contempt for a game in which players have to wear so much equipment. Men play basketball in their underwear, which seems just right to me. Anna Quindlen
I feel about exercise the same way that I feel about a few other things: that there is nothing wrong with it if it is done in private by consenting adults. Anna Quindlen
The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America. Anna Quindlen
It’s babe feminism – we’re young, we’re fun, we do what we want in bed – and it has a shorter shelf life than the feminism of sisterhood. I’ve been a babe, and I’ve been a sister. Sister lasts longer. Anna Quindlen
Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us. 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
Like cellulite creams or hair-loss tonics, capital punishment is one of those panaceas that isn’t. Only it costs a whole lot more. Anna Quindlen
If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They’d be inexpensive, too. Anna Quindlen
Athletes are American princes and the locker room is their castle. Some of them behave in princely fashion, become legitimate heroes to us all. And some are jerks. Anna Quindlen