American - Journalist | July 8, 1953 -
Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.
Anna Quindlen
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There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.
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If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.
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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 thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.
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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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Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you're tired of hearing about us, you should try being one of us.
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I am an affirmative action hire.
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