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People always blame the girl she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
Anna Quindlen
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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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Anna Marie Quindlen
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the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government.
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You teach your 16-year-old with your heart in your mouth to be a good driver and none of that makes any difference when some drunk comes around a corner and runs a stop sign.
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The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?
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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.
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She say guilt is a useless emotion. Oh, please, says Nancy. Guilt is what separates humans from animals.
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When you really want to say no, say no. You can't do everything - or at least not well.
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More than a decade after our fellow citizens began bedding down on the sidewalks, their problems continue to seem so intractable that we have begun to do psychologically what government has been incapable of doing programmatically. We bring the numbers down--not by solving the problem, but by deciding it's their own damn fault.
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The purse is the mirror of the soul.
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Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around, and nearly every book represents what my son's third grade teacher refers to as a teachable moment.
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My father really, really pushed me to excel in a way that I resented for years and then realized had really worked for me.
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Prosecutors insist they are mounting a thorough investigation, which sometimes means thorough and sometimes, historically, has meant long enough to let the fire burn down in an incendiary case. A thorough investigation is fine an interminable one is disgraceful.
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When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around.
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Catastrophe is numerical. Loss is singular, one beloved at a time.
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