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I love having a president who I think is smarter than I am.

Anna Quindlen

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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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Philadelphia
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Anna Marie Quindlen
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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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All the things we don’t say, all the words we swallow, and it makes nothing but trouble.
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It is so easy to exist instead of live.
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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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Fifty years ago, teachers said their top discipline problems were talking, chewing gum, making noise, and running in the halls. The current list, by contrast, sounds like a cross between a rap sheet and the seven deadly sins.
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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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Maybe crazy is just the word we use for feelings that will not be contained.
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Not writing at all leads to nothing.
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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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I don't really read what people write about me. Someone gives my novel one star are they a troll? Are they someone who hates my politics and so has decided to do that?
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