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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.
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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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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When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.
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I think the very best thing about the internet is that I can read all the London papers every day if I want to.
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I always wanted to be a fiction writer, but I couldn't figure out how you could be a novelist and make any money, which continues to be a problem for novelists the world over.
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If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.
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high fashion has little to do with what women wear and a lot to do with what retailers mark down later.
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Loss as muse. Loss as character. Loss as life.
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I do a lot of mental work before I ever start writing.
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One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.
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I've been a feminist since I was a teenager, but originally it was because I wanted to make the world a better place for me.
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