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Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising chil

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? – Anna Quindlen

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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. – Anna Quindlen

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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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Im sure not afraid of success and Ive learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing Im afraid of now is of being someone I dont like much. – Anna Quindlen

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Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. Im fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldnt make a good suspense film. – Alfred Hitchcock

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Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that person can deliver for them. Everything is fear based, so they pigeonhole people. But Ive written everything, from Westerns to sci-fi to dramedy, Ive done it all. – Melissa Rosenberg

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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when theres more reason to fear than to hope. – Miguel de Cervantes

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I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When Im with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts. – David Walliams

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