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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Anna Marie Quindlen
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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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It would take a helluva man to replace no man at all.
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Testosterone does not have to be toxic.
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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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We almost manage to forget that things happen that we don't anticipate.
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Like cellulite creams or hair-loss tonics, capital punishment is one of those panaceas that isn't. Only it costs a whole lot more.
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Over the last twenty years, we've changed the world just enough to make it radically different, but not enough to make it work.
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She say guilt is a useless emotion. Oh, please, says Nancy. Guilt is what separates humans from animals.
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There's something undeniable about the posture of a person trying not to acknowledge your existance
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It's only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions.
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And I don't have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It's almost as if I absorbed completely what mattered most to me, and the rest could go.
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I believe that in a contest between the living and the almost living, the latter must, if necessary, give way to the will of the former.
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If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be cheap, too.
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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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All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.
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being a parent is not transaction ... we do not get what we give. It is the ultimate pay-it-forward endeavor: we are good parents not so they will be loving enough to stay with us but so they will be strong enough to leave us.
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Young men kill someone for a handful of coins, then are remorseless, even casual: Hey, man, things happen. And their parents nab the culprit: it was the city, the cops, the system, the crowd, the music. Anyone but him. Anyone but me.
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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 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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That's what makes life so hard for women, that instead of thinking that this is the way things are, we always think it's the way we are.
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