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A finished person is a boring person. Anna Quindlen
Finished Boring Person
There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too. Anna Quindlen
Great Too Settled Kin About Emergency Emergency Room Something Soothing Romance Form Room Turning Next Special
All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child. Anna Quindlen
Gay People Cursing Parents Own Mock Mocking Child May Curse Should Aware
Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle. Anna Quindlen
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The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with. Anna Quindlen
Health Women Men Live Threat Greatest American Public Public Health American Women Many
People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it. Anna Quindlen
Wisdom Blame People Girl She Boy Said Always Been Manage Conventional Conventional Wisdom Should
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? Anna Quindlen
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The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America. Anna Quindlen
Life Victim About Mentality America May Thing Last
I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person. Anna Quindlen
Once Comfortable Am Person Personage Being Wanted Now
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. Anna Quindlen
Joy World Beauty Poetry Pound Weight Forever Walt Little Whitman Premium Thing Thinks
There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat. Anna Quindlen
Life You Yourself Parents Whatever Only Takes Always Afloat Room Turn Your Choose Keep
In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat. Anna Quindlen
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Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you. Anna Quindlen
Gay You Man Woman Mother Will Fall Down Baby Addict Bisexual Someday Come Real Domino Newborn Straight Theory Here
I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much. Anna Quindlen
Success Failure Someone Only Like Learned Sure Afraid Being The Only Thing Much Now Thing
I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat. Anna Quindlen
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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. Anna Quindlen
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I don't have to listen to the Gospel on Sunday to know the stories of the New Testament. They inform so much of what I write that they're practically like a news scrim that goes through my brain 24/7. Anna Quindlen
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You want to have fun with your kids, and no one has fun with someone who runs roughshod. Anna Quindlen
You Have Fun Kids Runs Someone No-One Want Your Who Fun
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. Anna Quindlen
Work Beginning Down Rules Picasso Had He Like Cubism Came Very Pat Child Did Representational Conventional After In The Beginning Little Things Raising
And I don't have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It's almost as if I absorbed completely what mattered most to me, and the rest could go. Anna Quindlen
Me Rest Think About Could Absorb Almost Feel Know Most Go Mattered Listen Them Sermon
When it comes to the population explosion, there are two questions on the table. One, is our population growth going to kill us all? And two, is there any ethical way to prevent that from happening? Annalee Newitz
Our Way Table Prevent Questions Any Going Happening Ethical Us Explosion Population Population Growth Growth Two
With technology tracking us everywhere we go, 'cosplay' might become our best defense against surveillance. Annalee Newitz
Best Technology Become Defense Our Everywhere Tracking Go Surveillance Against Might Us
Michel Gondry's 'Green Hornet' was another franchise flick that felt like it came out of left field - I thought in a good way, but most audiences disagreed. Annalee Newitz
Good Thought Field Franchise Way Out Good Way Like Most Another Felt Audiences Came Left Left Field Green Flick
A group of scientists wanted to find the most effective mosquito repellents. So they tested 10 different substances, including campout standbys like DEET, as well as a random choice: Victoria's Secret perfume Bombshell. Turns out the perfume is almost as good as DEET. Annalee Newitz
Good Mosquito Random Group Secret Out Find Almost Like Perfume Most Well Scientists Tested Effective Substances Different Wanted Victoria Victorias Secret Choice Turns Including Bombshell
There is evidence that we are headed into what would be the planet's sixth mass extinction. It's hard to know for sure if you're in one because a mass extinction is an event where over 75 percent of the species on the planet die out over a - usually about a million-year period. The fastest it might happen is in hundreds of thousands of years. Annalee Newitz
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Whether 'Avatar' is racist is a matter for debate. Regardless of where you come down on that question, it's undeniable that the film - like alien apartheid flick 'District 9', released earlier this year - is emphatically a fantasy about race. Annalee Newitz
You Debate Matter Alien Year Down Released District About Undeniable Come Like Question Where Regardless Whether Apartheid Race Avatar Fantasy Flick Film Earlier
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