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Maybe crazy is just the word we use for feelings that will not be contained.
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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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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Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it.
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Choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work.
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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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Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time.
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New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.
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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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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.
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I had that feeling you have when you're watching a sad movie, sobbing at the heartbreak you are feeling at the same time that you know the heartbreak isn't exactly real, that it will be gone by the time you get home and make a cup of tea. I found a lot of life like that when I was younger, as though I was practicing for what came later.
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The Church does an enormous amount of good, and it carries one of the most valuable messages imaginable - that you should love your neighbor as yourself, and that if you have two coats you should give one to the man who has none.
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Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. You toodle along, thinking that all gay men wear leather after dark and should never, ever be permitted around a Little League field. And then one day your best friend from college, the one your kids adore, comes out to you.
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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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When men do the dishes, it's called helping. When women do the dishes, it is called life.
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Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.
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Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.
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My home was in a pleasant place outside of Philadelphia. But I really lived, truly lived, somewhere else. I lived within the covers of books.
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You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership.
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Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.
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One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.
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I know that it's very dispiriting for people in their twenties, who expected to graduate from college, get their own apartments, get a job, and move forward with their lives, and in fact are still now living with Mom and Dad, which is challenging for all involved.
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