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When I quit The New York Times to be a fulltime mother, the voices of the world said I was nuts....But if success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your soul, it is not success at all.
Anna Quindlen
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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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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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Socialized medicine, some still cry, but it's long been socialized, with those covered paying for those who are underinsured. American medicine is simply socialized badly, penny wise and pound foolish.
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There may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an irony it would be if fanatics continued to kill and yet it was the apathy and silence of the medical profession that most wounded the ability to provide what is, after all, a medical procedure.
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Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.
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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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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 to write what the world is about, you have to write details...real life is in the dishes. Real life is pushing strollers up the street, folding T-shirts, the alarm clock going off early and you dropping into bed exhausted every night. That's real life.
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I am an affirmative action hire.
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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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Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.
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Women writers of all people should know better than to pigeonhole women, put them in little groups, the smart one, the sweet one.
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Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.
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The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.
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We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.
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The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible that is, that one is male and the other female.
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Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.
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That's really what I want in a leader I want somebody who's really, really smart.
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Young men kill someone for a handful of coins, then are remorseless, even casual: Hey, man, things happen. And their parents nab the culprit: it was the city, the cops, the system, the crowd, the music. Anyone but him. Anyone but me.
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This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver's seat and keeping quiet.
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Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be honest.
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