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Sometimes we don't see out of our peripheral vision what's coming right around the corner.
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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The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them. No one does the right thing out of fear. If you ever utter the words, 'We've always done it that way,' I urge you to wash out your mouth with soap.
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I'm going to live long enough to live in an America that will assume universal health care is a basic right. That will be amusing and terrific.
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When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around.
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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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I know the difference now between dedication and infatuation. That doesn't mean I don't still get an enormous kick out of infatuation: the exciting ephemera, the punch in the stomach, the adrenaline to the heart.
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Guilt is what separates humans from animals.
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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 remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box.
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So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness.
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Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
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I am an affirmative action hire.
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