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I know a lot and have written a lot and have thought a lot about motherhood.

Anna Quindlen

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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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Columnist
Journalist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Anna Marie Quindlen
Motherhood
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Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.
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When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around.
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Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.
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For many years, despite what I thought were really punitive decisions about women in the church, I stayed and stayed and stayed. I kept saying to myself, The Catholic church is my church, and by God, I'm going to stay here, despite what the hierarchy does.
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Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.
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I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.
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My mother was an incredibly loving mother.
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People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently.
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Not writing at all leads to nothing.
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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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