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I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.
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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Kids and violent TV, violent TV and violence, violence and kids. The only people missing from this discussion are the parents. Where are we? Gone. Abdicated.
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Speech is the voice of the heart.
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The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you.
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This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver's seat and keeping quiet.
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Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
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That's what makes life so hard for women, that instead of thinking that this is the way things are, we always think it's the way we are.
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All the things we don’t say, all the words we swallow, and it makes nothing but trouble.
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Each instance of sexual harassment has to be judged on its merits. Facts, timing, motives, credibility: all must be considered before we make up our own minds what to believe.
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I don't know what I would do in the world without [female friends] for advice, for comfort, for simply knowing that there is someone out there who knows me as I am, and loves me despite and because of it.
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