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Anna Marie Quindlen (born July 8, 1952) is an American author, journalist, and opinion columnist.

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Hospitals are a little like the beach. The next wave comes in, and the footprints of your pain and suffering, your delivery and recovery, are obliterated.

Beach, Pain, Recovery, Suffering, Delivery

There are obvious places in which government can narrow the chasm between haves and have-nots. One is the public schools, which have been seen as the great leveler, the authentic melting pot. That, today, is nonsense. In his scathing study of the nation's public school system entitled "Savage Inequalities," Jonathan Kozol made manifest the truth: that we have a system that discriminates against the poor in everything from class size to curriculum.

Authentic, Class, Education, Haves, School, Truth

When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around.

Children, Parent, Run, Running, Small, Way

We almost manage to forget that things happen that we don't anticipate.

Forget, Anticipate, Happens, Happen, Manage

I think that after a while you realize that your husband can't be all things to you and certainly you don't want the kids to be all things to you, because that would be a terrible weight for them; and that where you really find solace a lot of the time is with your girlfriends.

Girlfriend, Husband, Kids, Terrible, Things, Time

I've been a feminist since I was a teenager, but originally it was because I wanted to make the world a better place for me.

Feminist, Originally, Teenager, World

It often seems, looking back, that the unexpected comes to define us, the paths we didn't see coming and may have wandered down by mistake. The older we get the more willing we are to follow those, to surprise ourselves.

Define, Down, Follow, May, Mistake, Path

I don't understand how people learn to live in the world if they haven't had siblings. Everything I learned about negotiation, territoriality, coexistence, dislike, inbred differences and love despite knowledge I learned from my four younger siblings.

Differences, Everything, Four, Learn, People, Sibling

Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.

Father, Postcard, Race, Rat, Win, Winning

When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of the book.

Book, Think, Thinking, World, Write, Writing

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around, and nearly every book represents what my son's third grade teacher refers to as a "teachable moment.

Book, Dough, Pizza, Represents, Son, Teacher

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.

1946, 1965, America, Quarter, Thinking, Tired

She say guilt is a useless emotion. " "Oh, please," says Nancy. "Guilt is what separates humans from animals.

Animal, Guilt, Nancy, Say, Useless

So you're getting squeezed at both sides. You're taking care of your mom and dad and you're still doing caregiving with your kids, which is not easy. But I think overall, there's a level of satisfaction that might be unparalleled.

Care, Dad, Kids, Level, Mom, Sides

Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat.

Child, Children, Cubism, Littles, Raising, Rules

I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.

Friend, Husband, Marriage, Mean, Tried, Vows

Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had.

Brings, Inspirational Life, Read, Story, Wrinkles, Writing

[In the aftermath of death] Small talk feels too small, big talk too enormous.

Aftermath, Big, Bigs, Death, Enormous

At the same time that you've got to open yourself up to the fact that experience is going to teach you year after year, decade after decade. I remember I very badly wanted to write a newspaper column when I was only 21 years old, and I went to my editor and told him that, and he said, "You're a really good writer, but you haven't lived long enough to be qualified to live out loud. "

Editor, Editors, Lived, Long, Writing, Years

Look at the view and you'll never be disappointed.

Disappointed, Look, Looks, View, Views

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