Quote by Anna Quindlen
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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Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and dont discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, its stupid. Banning books shows you dont trust your kids to think and you dont trust yourself to be able to talk to them. – Anna Quindlen

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Trust
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After all those years as a woman hearing not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough, almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, Im enough. – Anna Quindlen

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Morning
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The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But youd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools. – Anna Quindlen

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China, in the future, is going to have even more nuclear capability than it has had in the past. I dont believe that they have anything to fear from the United States, and I frankly dont believe they do fear the United States. – Paul Wolfowitz

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Fear

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us. – Bell Hooks

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That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject. – George Santayana

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Fear

Fear attracts attack. – Edwin Louis Cole

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Changing and actually improving are two quite different skills. – Dr.SunWolf, 2015 tweet, professorsunwolf.com

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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever. – Khalil Gibran

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