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We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.

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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
Author
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Journalist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Anna Marie Quindlen
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Success
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Motherhood
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I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write, and there are very few of them.
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The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a yearless than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.
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Frankly, I'm mainly telling the story to myself. Thinking about audience is too daunting, and worst case, invites you to homogenize, to soften the hard edges of things.
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I think that we really fool ourselves about our ability to be safe and secure nowadays.
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I was doing the family grocery shopping accompanied by two children, an event I hope to see included in the Olympics in the near future.
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Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.
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Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die.
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I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions and collide. Besides, I have contempt for a game in which players have to wear so much equipment. Men play basketball in their underwear, which seems just right to me.
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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 was a kid who sometimes got in trouble because I couldn't keep my mouth shut, which turned out to be an advantage when I became an opinion columnist.
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The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them. No one does the right thing out of fear. If you ever utter the words, 'We've always done it that way,' I urge you to wash out your mouth with soap.
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I do think there's some aspect of being a novelist that is a little crazy making.
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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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All the things we don’t say, all the words we swallow, and it makes nothing but trouble.
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People ask me all the time if I'm from a family of writers. The literal short answer is no, but my father and his brothers and sisters and his mother are all people who would sit around with a Tom Collins and tell stories that seemed to get better and better each time they told them.
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If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.
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My father expected his first child to be a boy, and when it didn't turn out that way he didn't let the fact get in the way of a good story.
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When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of the book.
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The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?
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the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.
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