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The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.
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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I never think about issues when I'm working on a novel. Issues are things that happen to people in sufficient numbers to elicit widespread attention in other words, they're just life happening. That's what I think about: life, and telling a story.
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The gender gap looks at this point like it's going to favor the president, particularly among white suburban women. I certainly think it's going to be an issue. But I think the single most important thing in this election will be turnout.
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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.
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I stopped going to mass, and boy, it was painful for me, and it was certainly painful for my family, but I just couldn't ratify their behavior and their decisions anymore by showing up on Sundays.
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I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write, and there are very few of them.
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One of the interesting things I discovered, talking about your grandmother, is I did a search of my uses of the word elderly in my copy over the years, and you will not be surprised to hear that the older I got the less often I used the word elderly in print.
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Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die.
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I learned that if I ever claim sexual harassment, I will be confronted with every bozo I once dated, every women I once impressedas snotty and superior, and together they will provide a convenient excuse to disbelieve me.
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The New Testament has had a really powerful effect on how I write and how I live my life.
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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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I do tend to be almost kind of Pollyanna-ish person.
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My father expected his first child to be a boy, and when it didn't turn out that way he didn't let the fact get in the way of a good story.
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The one thing that I always got positive reinforcement for from teachers, who really changed my life, was the written word.
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Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.
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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.
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Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time.
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But while ignorance can make you insensitive, familiarity can also numb. Entering the second half-century of an information age, our cumulative knowledge has changed the level of what appalls, what stuns, what shocks.
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New York is a city where it's particularly hard to be poor, not only because everything costs twice as much as it does elsewhere but because over-the-top affluence is part of its identity.
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I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child, it's time for a zone defense instead of man-to-man.
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I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.
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