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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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People always blame the girl she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys cant manage it. – Anna Quindlen

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There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever. – Anna Quindlen

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The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with. – Anna Quindlen

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What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can. – Proverb

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. – Phil Jackson

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Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength. – Mickey Kaus

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Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction. – Guy Verhofstadt

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