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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 do get a sense that there's a huge disconnect between the political powers and what's really happening, so right-wing conservatives can talk about contraception all they want, but the women of America are using birth control. It's as simple as that.
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I don't do research for my novels. Obviously, in my other line of work as a reporter and a columnist, I've had the opportunity to get to know both social workers and TV talk-show hosts.
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Choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work.
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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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I think when people keep saying to you, You're good at this, you just keep doing it.
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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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the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government.
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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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Adolescence is a tough time for parent and child alike. It is a time between: between childhood and maturity, between parental protection and personal responsibility, between life stage- managed by grown-ups and life privately held.
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I do tend to be almost kind of Pollyanna-ish person.
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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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The unemployment rate among the young in the United States is still very disconcerting, although we all know it's nowhere near as bad as it is in some of the European countries, where in some places it approaches 50 percent.
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