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I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.

Anna Quindlen

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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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These are my words this is their world, a world in which we can wear our gender on our sleeves, unabashedly, as we go about the business of thinking out loud.
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Maybe crazy is just the word we use for feelings that will not be contained.
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I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.
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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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My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room, and I realized that out of a sea of infinite possibilities it had come down to this: a specific person, born on the hottest day of the year, conceived on a Christmas Eve, made by his father and me miraculously from scratch.
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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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The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.
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Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.
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I'll tell you the truth - I went to a women's college, Barnard, the most selective college for women in America today. If there's one thing I came out of Barnard with, because it was a women's college and a great institution of higher education, it was fearlessness.
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Women are the glue that holds our day-to-day world together.
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I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child, it's time for a zone defense instead of man-to-man.
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I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.
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I can't think of a single downside to motherhood now.
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There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.
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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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It's an odd kind of feeling because it sort of reminds me of being five again. When you're a five-year-old, you don't pay any attention to what anyone thinks of you. You just sort of are in your skin.
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There's some muscle group around your shoulders that seizes up during the perfection dance and doesn't let go until you are asleep, or alone. Or maybe it never really lets go at all.
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Catastrophe is numerical. Loss is singular, one beloved at a time.
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So you're getting squeezed at both sides. You're taking care of your mom and dad and you're still doing caregiving with your kids, which is not easy. But I think overall, there's a level of satisfaction that might be unparalleled.
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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
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