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I don't know what I would do in the world without [female friends] for advice, for comfort, for simply knowing that there is someone out there who knows me as I am, and loves me despite and because of it.

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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
Author
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Anna Marie Quindlen
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Consider the lilies of the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby's ear. Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a terminal illness because if you do you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
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part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition.
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The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
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Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?
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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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But never fear, gentlemen castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.
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