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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.»
«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.»
Author: Anna Quindlen
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Children
| Keywords:
bookshelf, bookshelves, building, content, decorate, decorated, decorates, decorating, grew, mostly
«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.»
Author: Anna Quindlen
(Author, Journalist)
| Keywords:
beach, blank, blanker, blanks, blank verse, crossed, endlessly, On the Beach, searching, The Beach, The Beaches, the darkness, verse, walked
«It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for their daughters, and their sons, too. It's the way we talk about and treat one another. It's who makes the money and who makes the compromises and who makes the dinner. It's a state of mind. It's the way we live now.»
Author: Anna Quindlen
(Author, Journalist)
| Keywords:
compromises, daughters, group, Money Talks, organizations, sons, state of mind
«When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women? In some ways we're as committed to the old madonna-whore dichotomy as ever. And the madonna stays home, feeding the baby behind the blinds, a vestige of those days when for a lady to venture out was a flagrant act of public exposure.»
«I know the difference now between dedication and infatuation. That doesn't mean I don't still get an enormous kick out of infatuation;: the exciting ephemera, the punch in the stomach, the adrenaline to the heart.»
Author: Anna Quindlen
(Author, Journalist)
| Keywords:
adrenaline, dedication, ephemera, infatuation, Infatuations, kick out, punch, punch in
«Familiarity breeds content»
«I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy»
Author: Anna Quindlen
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Diplomacy,
Machines
| Keywords:
agreed upon, alternative, diplomacy, prototype, prototypes, time machine
«A finished person is a boring person.»
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