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You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership.
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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All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.
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If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it.
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We take our vitamins, we go to exercise class, we put on our seat belts. And then something blindsides us and gives the lie to our carefully constructed facade of safety.
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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.
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I think one of the hardest things about doing a book in the first person is that to a certain extent each day, when you begin to do your work, you're climbing into somebody else's skin.
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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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I'm going to live long enough to live in an America that will assume universal health care is a basic right. That will be amusing and terrific.
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In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.
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Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat.
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Reporters are not paid to operate in retrospect. Because when news begins to solidify into current events and finally harden intohistory, it is the stories we didn't write, the questions we didn't ask that prove far, far more damaging than the ones we did.
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Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description.
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The problem with freedom is that you just can't go back. Once people see what it means to be free people, you can't go back. So they're going to keep nattering on about this and that, and maybe they'll make another stab at de-funding the fabulous Planned Parenthood or something of the sort. To my mind, it's just not going to work.
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I really feel like I'm a liberal because I'm a Catholic, because I took the words of the New Testament to heart.
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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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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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Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it.
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When men do the dishes, it's called helping. When women do the dishes, it is called life.
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You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
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Obama doesn't seem like a burger and a beer kind of guy. I have to say, I don't find that problematic at all.
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I'm a Catholic of the New Testament, I'm not a Catholic of the hierarchy.
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