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It makes me angry to think that . . . female sanitation workers will spend their days doing a job most of their co-workers think they can't handle, and then they will go home and do another job most of their co-workers don't want.
Anna Quindlen
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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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All of life like a series of tableaux, and in the living we missed so much, hid so much, left so much undone and unsaid.
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[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their fellow citizens associated with Third World countries and the novels of Dickens was as dangerous as any battlefield enemy.
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And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.
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In a democratic society, the only treason is silence.
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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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What had I expected of the first child? Everything. Rocket scientist. Neurosurgeon. Designated hitter. We talked wisely at cocktail parties about the sad mistake our mothers had made in pinning all their hopes and dreams on us. We were full of it.
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Each instance of sexual harassment has to be judged on its merits. Facts, timing, motives, credibility: all must be considered before we make up our own minds what to believe.
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It's only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions.
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Reading is another thing that has made me more human by exposing me to worlds I might never have entered and people I might never meet.
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The reason child care is such a loaded issue is that when we talk about it, we are always tacitly talking about motherhood. And when we're talking about motherhood we're always tacitly assuming that child care must be a very dim second to full-time mother care.
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Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.
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I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.
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I think the very best thing about the internet is that I can read all the London papers every day if I want to.
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