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My home was in a pleasant place outside of Philadelphia. But I really lived, truly lived, somewhere else. I lived within the covers of books.
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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Adolescence is a tough time for parent and child alike. It is a time between: between childhood and maturity, between parental protection and personal responsibility, between life stage- managed by grown-ups and life privately held.
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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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We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.
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an the president bring out the voters who were so enthusiastic about him in 2008 and seem a little disenchanted now? Can he bring out young people? Can he bring out Latinos? Can he bring out those white suburban moms?
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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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Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.
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There's no greater happiness than doing something every day that you love, that you feel you do in a satisfactory fashion, and which both supports and gives you time to support your family. I felt so lucky to have all that.
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Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.
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We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.
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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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what we call things matters. ... The words we use, and how we perceive those words, reflect how we value, or devalue, people, places, and things.
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high fashion has little to do with what women wear and a lot to do with what retailers mark down later.
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I sometimes think that courage is the thing that you need more than any other thing. It's fear that cripples us. It's fear that accounts for racism, it's fear that accounts for sexism, for xenophobia.
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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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I think there are some stories that need to be told by a specific person as opposed to in the third person.
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When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of the book.
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