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I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before.

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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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Anna Marie Quindlen
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Anyone who has breast-fed knows two things for sure: The baby wants to be fed at the most inopportune times, in the most inopportune places, and the baby will prevail.... And so the baby should, and the mom, too. Sometimes a breast is a sexual object, and sometimes it's a food delivery system, and one need not preclude nor color the other.
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The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
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