Quote by Anna Quindlen
I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her lif

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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But its important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated. – Anna Quindlen

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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. – Anna Quindlen

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sad
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I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words. – Anna Quindlen

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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength. – Eric Hoffer

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When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there. – Everett Dirksen

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Theres a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense. – Arthur Scargill

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Its really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength. – Carson Kressley

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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. – Benjamin Disraeli

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My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. – Hamlin Garland

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The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted. – Vincent Bugliosi

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than anothers fear. – Umberto Eco

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