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Anna Quindlen

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The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.


— Anna Quindlen


#becoming #beginning #being #giving #giving up

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.


— Anna Quindlen


#building #children #consists #content #decorating

All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.


— Anna Quindlen


#child #curse #cursing #gay #may

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


#beginnings #endings #going #life #middle

Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.


— Anna Quindlen


#early #enamored #great #his #honor

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.


— Anna Quindlen


#free #free speech #given #ignorant #instead

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.


— Anna Quindlen


#children #enough #learned #once #rules

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


#been #blame #conventional #conventional wisdom #girl

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


— Anna Quindlen


#america #complicated thing #last #life #may

If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy.


— Anna Quindlen


#catholic #catholic church #church #hierarchy #living






About Anna Quindlen

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Did you know about Anna Quindlen?

Luke's School in New York. Much of her personal writing centers on her mother who died at the age of 40 from ovarian cancer when Quindlen was 19 years old. (2007)
Lots of Candles Plenty of Cake (2012)


Novels
Object Lessons (1991)
One True Thing (1994)
Black and Blue (1998)
Blessings (2002)
Rise and Shine (2006)
Every Last One: A Novel (2010)


Children's books
The Tree That Came To Stay (Illustrated by Nancy Carpenter) (1992)
Happily Ever After (Illustrated by James Stevenson) (1997)


New table pictorials
Naked Babies (Photographs by Nick Kelsh) (1996)
Siblings (Photographs by Nick Kelsh) (1998)


Speeches
1999 commencement speech Mount Holyoke College
2000 commencement speech Villanova University
2002 commencement speech Sarah Lawrence College
2006 commencement speech Colby College
2008 commencement speech Kenyon College
2009 commencement speech Wesleyan University
2011 commencement speech Grinnell College


Awards


Industry Awards
1992 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
2001 Mothers At Home Media Award
2001 Clarion Award for Best Regular Opinion Column in a magazine
2002 Clarion Award for Best Opinion Column from the Association for Women in Communications


Honorary Degrees
Dartmouth College
Denison University
Grinnell College May 2011
Kenyon College May 2008
Moravian College
Mount Holyoke College
Smith College
Stevens Institute of Technology
Nantucket High School
Penn State
Villanova University
Wesleyan University[1]


Other Awards from Universities
University Medal of Excellence from Columbia
Poynter Fellow in Journalism at Yale
Victoria Fellow in Contemporary Issues at Rutgers
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Honorary Doctorate from The Pennsylvania State University (Aug.

Anna Marie Quindlen (born July 8 1952) is an American author journalist and opinion columnist whose New York Times column Public and Private won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992. Between 1977 and 1994 Anna Quindlen held several posts at The New York Times.

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