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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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Philadelphia
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Anna Marie Quindlen
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In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.
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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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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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I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
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I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box.
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All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.
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That's really what I want in a leader I want somebody who's really, really smart.
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You want to have fun with your kids, and no one has fun with someone who runs roughshod.
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There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.
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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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I went to a women's college. ... it was a little like learning to swim while holding on to the side of the pool I didn't learn the arm movements until after I graduated, but by that time I was one hell of a kicker.
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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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When I quit The New York Times to be a fulltime mother, the voices of the world said I was nuts....But if success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your soul, it is not success at all.
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Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.
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When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women?
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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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People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage to their servile and salivating roots own dogs.
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Prosecutors insist they are mounting a thorough investigation, which sometimes means thorough and sometimes, historically, has meant long enough to let the fire burn down in an incendiary case. A thorough investigation is fine an interminable one is disgraceful.
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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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There are those of us who believe that under certain conditions the cruelest thing you can do to people you love is to force them to live. There are those of us who define living not by whether the heart beats and the lungs lift but whether the spirit is there, whether the music box plays.
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