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I did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning. I read because I loved it more than any other activity on earth.
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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Get a life. A real life. Not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house.
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This is why I had children: to offer them a perfect dream of childhood that can fill their souls as they grow older.
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Testosterone does not have to be toxic.
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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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Not writing at all leads to nothing.
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knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us.
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The difference between government and leadership is that leadership has a soul.
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By the time you kill and mount what you catch, it has lost that very thing that made it worth having. I knew this only as a vague sense of disappointment at age 10 not until later did I recognize it as a metaphor for much of life.
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I'm a Catholic of the New Testament, I'm not a Catholic of the hierarchy.
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I only really understand myself, what I'm really thinking and feelings, when I've talked it over with my circle of female friends. When days go by without that connection, I feel like a radio playing in an empty room.
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Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die.
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If you raise an intelligent girl she will become a feminist because of the facts of her own life. Raising feminist boys is more difficult. Raising egalitarian boys. One of the reasons you have to raise them that way is because it's better for them.
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And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that.
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Barack Obama presents as kind of a cool character, and I think that that's his natural personality.
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When I quit The New York Times to be a fulltime mother, the voices of the world said I was nuts....But if success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your soul, it is not success at all.
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