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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.
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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Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.
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Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. And the results always illusory.
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I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.
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On social welfare the Church does so much good around the world - nuns running schools and homeless shelters, priests ministering to people who are in crisis.
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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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Ethnic stereotypes are misshapen pearls, sometimes with a sandy grain of truth at their center. ... but they ignore complexity, change, and individuality.
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Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement.
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You can get rid of the column. It's a little like staying at a hotel you get used to the shape of the room, and then you're gone. With a novel you move into town and stay for a long time. That's both comforting and terrifying.
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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.
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Athletes are American princes and the locker room is their castle. Some of them behave in princely fashion, become legitimate heroes to us all. And some are jerks.
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Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?
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