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Anna Quindlen
July 8, 1953 -
Nationality: American
Category: Journalist
Subcategory: American Journalist

The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.

   

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.

   

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.

   

All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.

   

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.

   

The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?

   

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.

   

Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.

   

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.

   

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.

   

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.

   

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.

   

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.

   

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?

   

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