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And I don't have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It's almost as if I absorbed completely what mattered most to me, and the rest could go.
- Anna Quindlen
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New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.
- Anna Quindlen
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The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?
- Anna Quindlen
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When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around.
- Anna Quindlen
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Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.
- Anna Quindlen
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All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.
- Anna Quindlen
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#Opinion
#Qualities
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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.
- Anna Quindlen
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#Ideas
#Ignorance
#Stupid
#Trust
If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.
- Anna Quindlen
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The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.
- Anna Quindlen
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#Women
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.
- Anna Quindlen
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#People
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I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.
- Anna Quindlen
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Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.
- Anna Quindlen
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#Honor
#Man
#Wedding
#Women
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.
- Anna Quindlen
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#Country
#Independence
A finished person is a boring person.
- Anna Quindlen
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The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.
- Anna Quindlen
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#People
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Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat.
- Anna Quindlen
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#Things
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You want to have fun with your kids, and no one has fun with someone who runs roughshod.
- Anna Quindlen
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Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?
- Anna Quindlen
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#Fear
#Strength
#Us
#Will
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
- Anna Quindlen
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#Children
#Design
#People
#Up
I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.
- Anna Quindlen
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I am an affirmative action hire.
- Anna Quindlen
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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.
- Anna Quindlen
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#Look
#Right
#The Right Thing
Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.
- Anna Quindlen
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#Ideas
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#Pizza
Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.
- Anna Quindlen
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#Endings
#Life
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#Through
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
- Anna Quindlen
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#Darkness
#Life
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After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'
- Anna Quindlen
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#Morning
#Smart
#Woman
#Women
Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.
- Anna Quindlen
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#Freedom
#Parenting
#Rules
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
- Anna Quindlen
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#Beginning
#Hard
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#Work
#Yourself
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