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I'm very optimistic. I think if you would describe me, my pretty consistent affect is that I'm a pretty happy person.
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 world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific andtorturous, involving and utterly tedious, all at the same time. The world is full of women made to feel strange because what everyone assumes comes naturally is so difficult to do--never mind to do well.
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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
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People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage to their servile and salivating roots own dogs.
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When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of the book.
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The New Testament has had a really powerful effect on how I write and how I live my life.
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What I expect from my male friends is that they are polite and clean. What I expect from my female friends is unconditional love, the ability to finish my sentences for me when I am sobbing, a complete and total willingness to pour their hearts out to me, and the ability to tell me why the meat thermometer isn't supposed to touch the bone.
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Ignorance is death. A closed mind is a catafalque.
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Choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work.
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Athletes are American princes and the locker room is their castle. Some of them behave in princely fashion, become legitimate heroes to us all. And some are jerks.
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We almost manage to forget that things happen that we don't anticipate.
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... It was the idea of facing a future skimming the surface of life, winging my way in and out of other people's crises, confusions, and passages, engaging them enough to get the story, but never enough to be indelibly touched by what I had seen or heard.
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When I'm falling, my girlfriends are my soft landing.
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I had that feeling you have when you're watching a sad movie, sobbing at the heartbreak you are feeling at the same time that you know the heartbreak isn't exactly real, that it will be gone by the time you get home and make a cup of tea. I found a lot of life like that when I was younger, as though I was practicing for what came later.
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My mother was an incredibly loving mother.
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Sometimes we don't see out of our peripheral vision what's coming right around the corner.
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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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Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description.
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I really feel like I'm a liberal because I'm a Catholic, because I took the words of the New Testament to heart.
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So you're getting squeezed at both sides. You're taking care of your mom and dad and you're still doing caregiving with your kids, which is not easy. But I think overall, there's a level of satisfaction that might be unparalleled.
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Over the last twenty years, we've changed the world just enough to make it radically different, but not enough to make it work.
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