“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
Author: Anna Quindlen
Category: marriage
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There is little premium in poetry in
“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
Author: Anna Quindlen
Category: beauty
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Women who marry early are often overly
“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
Author: Anna Quindlen
Category: great
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The thing that is really hard, and
“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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Category: amazing
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The thing that is really hard, and
“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
— Anna Quindlen
Author: Anna Quindlen
Category: work
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If I get the forty additional years
“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
Author: Anna Quindlen
Category: sad
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