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All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.

Anna Quindlen

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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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Philadelphia
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Anna Marie Quindlen
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If you raise an intelligent girl she will become a feminist because of the facts of her own life. Raising feminist boys is more difficult. Raising egalitarian boys. One of the reasons you have to raise them that way is because it's better for them.
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Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.
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I think we now know the limits also of intelligence and rhetoric.
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Frankly, I'm mainly telling the story to myself. Thinking about audience is too daunting, and worst case, invites you to homogenize, to soften the hard edges of things.
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