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All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.
Anna Quindlen
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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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I really feel like if you can get past your fear, if you can say, Uh-uh, I'm afraid to do that and I'm going to do it anyhow, that that's really the way to have a satisfying life moving forward. I think I had that kind of fearlessness even as a young person. It wasn't tempered by experience or wisdom, but it took me a long way.
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All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.
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When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women?
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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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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
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Get a life. A real life. Not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house.
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I really feel like I'm a liberal because I'm a Catholic, because I took the words of the New Testament to heart.
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I think there was a long period of time when we got real invested in a youth culture, and not coincidentally it was when the baby boomers, who let's face it, take up a lot of space on the planet, were young.
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Loss as muse. Loss as character. Loss as life.
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Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character, your intellect, your inclinations, and yes, your soul by listening to its clean, clear voice of direction instead of following the muddied messages of a timid world.
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People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently.
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Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within it, at that moment, all the mysteries of the universe.
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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.
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The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed.
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I can't begin to predict how news will be delivered to readers in, say, 100 years. But I do know one thing that hasn't changed: Whatever the delivery system, whether it's a magazine, book or blog, people like vivid writing, strong stories and credible people. So while the venue is changing rapidly, human nature isn't, which I find soothing.
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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 love having a president who I think is smarter than I am.
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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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Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you're tired of hearing about us, you should try being one of us.
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Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.
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