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Choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work.

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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
Author
Columnist
Journalist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Anna Marie Quindlen
Choose
Kids
Work
Time
Newborn
Plenty
Later
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Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word have given them substance, given them life. And so we readers walk, and dream, and imagine, in the city where imagination found its great home.
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The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not a public man. Particularly not this one.
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The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened opportunities evolved. Law, institutions, corporations moved forward. But many minds did not.
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These are my words this is their world, a world in which we can wear our gender on our sleeves, unabashedly, as we go about the business of thinking out loud.
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The unemployment rate among the young in the United States is still very disconcerting, although we all know it's nowhere near as bad as it is in some of the European countries, where in some places it approaches 50 percent.
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A writer is always working with whatever she's managed to store in the brainpan or puzzle out about the world.
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When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around.
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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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If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be cheap, too.
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For most of my life the only ceremonies I've been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like weddings.
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I don't know what I would do in the world without [female friends] for advice, for comfort, for simply knowing that there is someone out there who knows me as I am, and loves me despite and because of it.
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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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My father really, really pushed me to excel in a way that I resented for years and then realized had really worked for me.
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I think we now know the limits also of intelligence and rhetoric.
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The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed.
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Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you're tired of hearing about us, you should try being one of us.
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... It was the idea of facing a future skimming the surface of life, winging my way in and out of other people's crises, confusions, and passages, engaging them enough to get the story, but never enough to be indelibly touched by what I had seen or heard.
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When you really want to say no, say no. You can't do everything - or at least not well.
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I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.
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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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