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Anna Quindlen | respect

But it’s important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated.

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Anna Quindlen poetry

Anna Quindlen | poetry

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.

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Anna Quindlen morning

Anna Quindlen | morning

After all those years as a woman hearing ‘not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,’ almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, ‘I’m enough.’

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Anna Quindlen marriage

Anna Quindlen | marriage

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible that is, that one is male and the other female.

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Anna Quindlen health

Anna Quindlen | health

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

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Anna Quindlen great

Anna Quindlen | great

Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.

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Anna Quindlen future

Anna Quindlen | future

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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Anna Quindlen freedom

Anna Quindlen | freedom

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.

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Anna Quindlen freedom

Anna Quindlen | freedom

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves – once they’ve learned the rules.

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Anna Quindlen Fear

Anna Quindlen | fear

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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