If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.

Quote by Anna Quindlen

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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 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...

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...

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 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...

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...

It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders....

It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders....

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...

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and...

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and...

I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure....

I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure....

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...

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom...

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom...

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.

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.

If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I...

If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...