"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."
-Anna Quindlen
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"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.“
-Anna Quindlen
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"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
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"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."
-Anna Quindlen
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"Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules."
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"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 and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display."
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"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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"Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance."
-Samuel Johnson
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