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That's really what I want in a leader I want somebody who's really, really smart.

Anna Quindlen

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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
Author
Columnist
Journalist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Anna Marie Quindlen
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Somebody
Really
Smart

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I love having a president who I think is smarter than I am.
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Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
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There may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an irony it would be if fanatics continued to kill and yet it was the apathy and silence of the medical profession that most wounded the ability to provide what is, after all, a medical procedure.
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Ignorance is death. A closed mind is a catafalque.
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The women of my mother's generation had, in the main, only one decision to make about their lives: who they would marry. From that, so much else followed: where they would live, in what sort of conditions, whether they would be happy or sad or, so often, a bit of both. There were roles and there were rules.
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Obama doesn't seem like a burger and a beer kind of guy. I have to say, I don't find that problematic at all.
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I think that we really fool ourselves about our ability to be safe and secure nowadays.
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Ask any woman how she makes it through the day, and she may mention her calendar, her to-do lists, her babysitter. But if you push her on how she really makes it through her day, she will mention her girlfriends.
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Well, we tell our kids things like 'don't gossip' and then an hour later they hear us on the phone. Stuff like that.
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Down time is where we become ourselves... a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.
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Women writers of all people should know better than to pigeonhole women, put them in little groups, the smart one, the sweet one.
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America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.
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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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You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.
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All of life like a series of tableaux, and in the living we missed so much, hid so much, left so much undone and unsaid.
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Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come we're selling this deadly stuff anyway?
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I am an affirmative action hire.
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