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I always have music on unless I'm reading aloud, which I always do before I hand anything in. It's the only way to know if a sentence really works, without clunks or cul-de-sac clauses.
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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I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write, and there are very few of them.
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Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. You toodle along, thinking that all gay men wear leather after dark and should never, ever be permitted around a Little League field. And then one day your best friend from college, the one your kids adore, comes out to you.
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This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver's seat and keeping quiet.
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Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.
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Women are the glue that holds our day-to-day world together.
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The gender gap looks at this point like it's going to favor the president, particularly among white suburban women. I certainly think it's going to be an issue. But I think the single most important thing in this election will be turnout.
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I was very driven, very focused, very ambitious. I mean, when I look back on myself in my 20s, part of me just cringes.
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The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.
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There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.
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I do a lot of mental work before I ever start writing.
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I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.
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Down time is where we become ourselves... a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.
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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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That's what makes life so hard for women, that instead of thinking that this is the way things are, we always think it's the way we are.
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the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.
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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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I think there was a long period of time when we got real invested in a youth culture, and not coincidentally it was when the baby boomers, who let's face it, take up a lot of space on the planet, were young.
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The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.
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The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you.
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Ignorance is death. A closed mind is a catafalque.
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