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Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.
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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I wondered why I hadn't loved that day more, why I hadn't savored every bit of it...why I hadn't known how good it was to live so normally, so everyday. But you only know that, I suppose, after it's not normal and every day any longer.
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An election marks the end of the affair it puts paid to the seduction of the many by the few. Pretty words, fulsome promises. We wind up married, but to whom, to what? We cannot always predict with certainty the future leader from the winning candidate. Some men grow in the job others are diminished by its demands and its grandeur.
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If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it.
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All of life like a series of tableaux, and in the living we missed so much, hid so much, left so much undone and unsaid.
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Those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers.
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Wow, so much of the way I've transacted my life... so much of the results that I'm happy about are because of what Daddy did.
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One of the interesting things I discovered, talking about your grandmother, is I did a search of my uses of the word elderly in my copy over the years, and you will not be surprised to hear that the older I got the less often I used the word elderly in print.
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We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.
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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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With reference to the younger generation...If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not to go straight from the classroom to the cubicle to the coffin, it doesn't mean they're lazy. It means they're sane.
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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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Reporters are not paid to operate in retrospect. Because when news begins to solidify into current events and finally harden intohistory, it is the stories we didn't write, the questions we didn't ask that prove far, far more damaging than the ones we did.
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A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.
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London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always have meaning for the future, because of all it can teach about disaster, survival, and redemption. It is all there in the streets. It is all there in the books.
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I'm a Catholic of the New Testament, I'm not a Catholic of the hierarchy.
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high fashion has little to do with what women wear and a lot to do with what retailers mark down later.
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People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently.
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My most pronounced writing habit is trying not to write.
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For most of my life the only ceremonies I've been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like weddings.
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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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