Famous Anna Quindlen Quotes

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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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.
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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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In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.
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Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.
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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.
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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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The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.
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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.
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