“I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.”
— Anna Quindlen
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Category: strength
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“There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.”
— Anna Quindlen
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Category: poetry
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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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Category: health
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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.”
— Anna Quindlen
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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.”
— Anna Quindlen
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Category: change
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“I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.”
— Anna Quindlen
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Category: freedom
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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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Category: women
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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.”
— Anna Quindlen
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Category: life
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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.”
— Anna Quindlen
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Category: good
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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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Category: failure
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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.”
— Anna Quindlen
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Category: design
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