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.

Quote by Anna Quindlen

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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...

Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks...

Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks...

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 thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect...

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect...

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are...

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are...

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...

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,...

All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may...

All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may...

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 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...

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 would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse...

I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse...

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...

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...

The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a...

The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a...

A finished person is a boring person.

A finished person is a boring person.

But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many...

But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many...

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in...

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in...

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse...

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse...

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

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