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In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.
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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But never fear, gentlemen castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.
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So you're getting squeezed at both sides. You're taking care of your mom and dad and you're still doing caregiving with your kids, which is not easy. But I think overall, there's a level of satisfaction that might be unparalleled.
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I don't do research for my novels. Obviously, in my other line of work as a reporter and a columnist, I've had the opportunity to get to know both social workers and TV talk-show hosts.
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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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Today is the only guarantee you get.
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There are those of us who believe that under certain conditions the cruelest thing you can do to people you love is to force them to live. There are those of us who define living not by whether the heart beats and the lungs lift but whether the spirit is there, whether the music box plays.
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Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.
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I got a fortune cookie that said, To remember is to understand. I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like to be a lawyer. A good editor remembers being a writer. A good parent remembers what it was like to be a child.
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In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.
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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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The beginning and the end are never really the journey of discovery for me. It is the middle that remains a puzzle until well into the writing. That's how life is most of the time, isn't it? You know where you are and where you hope to wind up. It's the getting there that's challenging.
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I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before.
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I'm a Catholic of the New Testament, I'm not a Catholic of the hierarchy.
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I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.
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I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.
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Anyone who has breast-fed knows two things for sure: The baby wants to be fed at the most inopportune times, in the most inopportune places, and the baby will prevail.... And so the baby should, and the mom, too. Sometimes a breast is a sexual object, and sometimes it's a food delivery system, and one need not preclude nor color the other.
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Reading is another thing that has made me more human by exposing me to worlds I might never have entered and people I might never meet.
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The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and tortuous.
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The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
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And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that.
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