I read and walked for miles at night along the bea... -Anna Quindlen

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.

Anna Quindlen , Journalist
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Anna Quindlen is an American journalist and author, known for her columns and books that explore social issues and personal reflections.

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Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules....
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves....
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...
Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to th...
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself....
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 numb...
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 ...
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America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy...
I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man an...

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A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings....
I would say that a wasted vote is voting for anybody you don't believe in. If you believe in the third party, that's the guy you need to voice for. Th...
There are brilliant out lesbians and gay men and bisexuals and transgendered people and heterosexuals keeping the fire of change alive. Not a day goes...
Change is never easy....
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa....
Two places are ordained for man to dwell in after this life. While he is here, he may choose, by God's mercy, which he will; but once he is gone from ...
Change can be for good if you combine audacity with safety....
Never change the person that you are just to fit in. You'll find your true friends that like you for you, and if you are happy with doing things that ...
I have always wanted to be a catalyst for bringing about positive change, inspiring others to choose goodness....
Things change all the time, and they'll probably never be the same again. It's just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and w...