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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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Anna Marie Quindlen
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She say guilt is a useless emotion. Oh, please, says Nancy. Guilt is what separates humans from animals.
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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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I sometimes think that courage is the thing that you need more than any other thing. It's fear that cripples us. It's fear that accounts for racism, it's fear that accounts for sexism, for xenophobia.
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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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I think when people keep saying to you, You're good at this, you just keep doing it.
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Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting older than we pretend. It was interesting to me when I first started working on this book that I'd mentioned that I was writing a memoir about aging and everybody would moan and groan and carry on.
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It's what the Taliban does in Afghanistan, it's what gets done in the Middle East, and it's clearly something that certain mainly conservative groups in the United States would like to do. They miss the good old days, when men were men and women were nothing.
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Ask any woman how she makes it through the day, and she may mention her calendar, her to-do lists, her babysitter. But if you push her on how she really makes it through her day, she will mention her girlfriends.
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I've always had a certain facility with words.
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If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be cheap, too.
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I think what saved me, as a writer, is that there are really two breaking points in my life. One was when I was 19 and my mother died, and one was when I was 31 and my first child was born. And that sort of gave me a kind of rebirth that I think has been invaluable to me as a novelist, in terms of seeing the world anew.
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When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around.
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A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.
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I do tend to be almost kind of Pollyanna-ish person.
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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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If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.
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the more humdrum aspects of life do not make for gripping reading. To render them compelling, a writer must describe the universal in eloquent and evocative prose. Alas, Frey's writing suggests that this was not an option, and he came up with something else.
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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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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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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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