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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.
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 am an affirmative action hire.
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I really feel like I'm a liberal because I'm a Catholic, because I took the words of the New Testament to heart.
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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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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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the most sacred business of judges is not to ratify the will of the majority but to protect the minority from its tyranny.
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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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If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.
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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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You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.
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I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives.
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I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before.
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A safety net of small white lies can be the bedrock of a successful marriage. You wouldn't believe how cheaply I can do a kitchen renovation.
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If we really feel like we're comfortable in our own skins now, we have a longer period of time to live out that kind of third or fourth act of our life.
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You realize that especially when you're writing a book like this, looking back on your life, that there's just such a depth of understanding you acquire over time with the help of the people who love you that that's when you can really get down to what you really think and believe.
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I had that feeling you have when you're watching a sad movie, sobbing at the heartbreak you are feeling at the same time that you know the heartbreak isn't exactly real, that it will be gone by the time you get home and make a cup of tea. I found a lot of life like that when I was younger, as though I was practicing for what came later.
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Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
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I think a lot of people, but particularly a lot of women, get to this stage when I'd say they're over 50. We face a lot of hard judgment from the world, we women. If you're a full-time mother, you should be out working. If you're out working, your kids must be being overlooked.
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Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time.
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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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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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