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I don't do research for my novels. Obviously, in my other line of work as a reporter and a columnist, I've had the opportunity to get to know both social workers and TV talk-show hosts.

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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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Look at the view and you'll never be disappointed.
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Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.
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part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition.
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God bless the physician who warms the speculum or holds your hand and looks into your eyes. Perhaps one subtext of the health caredebate is a yen to be treated like a whole person, not just an eye, an ear, a nose or a throat. A yen to be human again, on the part of patient and doctor alike.
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