American - Journalist | July 8, 1953 -
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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Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.
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A finished person is a boring person.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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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There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.
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The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.
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All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.
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The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.
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