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If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it.
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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Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.
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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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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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My mother was an incredibly loving mother.
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It's only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions.
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I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been writing them.
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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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London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences it opens to you like a series of rooms, door, passsage, door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand.
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We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.
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Familiarity breeds content.
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I do tend to be almost kind of Pollyanna-ish person.
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I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.
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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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the more humdrum aspects of life do not make for gripping reading. To render them compelling, a writer must describe the universal in eloquent and evocative prose. Alas, Frey's writing suggests that this was not an option, and he came up with something else.
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In life, the classroom is everywhere. The exam comes at the very end.
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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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You want to have fun with your kids, and no one has fun with someone who runs roughshod.
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The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided ever more reasons for its spiritual solace. Emails are letters, after all, more lasting than phone calls, even if many of them r 2 cursory 4 u.
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Poor kids are much more likely to become sick than their richer counterparts, but much less likely to have health insurance. Talk about a double whammy.
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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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