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The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea at a table sticky with spilled apple juice and littered with markers without tops.

Anna Quindlen

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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
Author
Columnist
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Anna Marie Quindlen
Difficult
Tea
Markers
Two
Motherhood
Tops
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Apples
Mothering
Without
Cups
Sticky
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Admit
Friendships
Table
Juice
Tables
Quietly
Littered
Ones
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Spilled

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