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“A week in the hospital she had told us. A hysterectomy, she had said. It had seemed unremarkable to me in a woman of forty-six long finished with childbearing, although every day that I grow older I realize there is never anything unremarkable about losing any part of what makes you female - a breast, a womb, a child, a man.”
― Anna Quindlen, One True Thing: Love What You Have

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
― Margaret Atwood

“I wondered why I hadn't loved that day more, why I hadn't savored every bit of it...why I hadn't known how good it was to live so normally, so everyday. But you only know that, I suppose, after it's not normal and every day any longer.”
― Anna Quindlen, One True Thing

“All of life like a series of tableaux, and in the living we missed so much, hid so much, left so much undone and unsaid.”
― Anna Quindlen, One True Thing