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Anna Quindlen
 
Date of birth: 08 September 1953
Date of death: Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin: America
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   Anna Quindlen is a best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist.

Quindlen started her career in journalism as a reporter for the New York Post in 1974. In 1977, she began working at the New York Times, where she rose to prominence as a columnist. Her first column was the "About New York" comumn, which she wrote from 1981 to 1983. In 1985, she created the "Life in the 30s" column, and in 1990 she began writing her most well-known column, the nationally-syn .... (More...)
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" A finished person is a boring person. "

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" A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement. "

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" But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on. "

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" I came to the realization that there were certain public issues that were most usefully dealt with within some sort of framework of at least my private beliefs, if not my private life. "

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" I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all. "

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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. "

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" The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you. "

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" There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word "banal" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say "underedited," I say "derivative." The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews. "

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" 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. "

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" All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough. "

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" Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first. "

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" I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. "

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