AQAnna Quindlen

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Anna Quindlen

Born 1952 AD; death year unknown

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01c. 1952 AD

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.

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02c. 1952 AD

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

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03c. 1952 AD

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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04c. 1952 AD

The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.

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