I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.

Quote by Anna Quindlen

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When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to...

When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to...

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two...

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two...

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of...

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of...

A finished person is a boring person.

A finished person is a boring person.

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition...

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition...

In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another...

In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another...

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to...

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to...

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind...

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind...

I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the...

I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the...

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

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

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why...

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why...

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman...

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman...

The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you...

The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you...

I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me...

I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me...

The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.

The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.

There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of...

There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of...

Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to...

Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to...

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense...

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense...

There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always...

There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always...

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss,...

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss,...