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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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Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. Book love, Trollope called it. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live. Yet of all the many things in which we recognize some universal comfort...reading seems to be the one in which the comfort is most undersung.
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Women are the glue that holds our day-to-day world together.
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The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.
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the most sacred business of judges is not to ratify the will of the majority but to protect the minority from its tyranny.
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While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who read too much, whatever reading too much means, of being lazy, aimless dreamers, people who need to grow up and come outside to where real life is, who think themselves superior in their separateness.
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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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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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Speech is the voice of the heart.
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Barack Obama presents as kind of a cool character, and I think that that's his natural personality.
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Catastrophe is numerical. Loss is singular, one beloved at a time.
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There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.
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Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.
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I did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning. I read because I loved it more than any other activity on earth.
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If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it.
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She say guilt is a useless emotion. Oh, please, says Nancy. Guilt is what separates humans from animals.
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I was doing the family grocery shopping accompanied by two children, an event I hope to see included in the Olympics in the near future.
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I think there was a long period of time when we got real invested in a youth culture, and not coincidentally it was when the baby boomers, who let's face it, take up a lot of space on the planet, were young.
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Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.
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Adolescence is a tough time for parent and child alike. It is a time between: between childhood and maturity, between parental protection and personal responsibility, between life stage- managed by grown-ups and life privately held.
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While liberals had embraced Obama as someone who had left-wing progressive ideas, the truth is that by personality he's a very incremental guy.
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