Who is Anna Quindlen
Anna Marie Quindlen (born July 8, 1952) is an American author, journalist, and opinion columnist.Her New York Times column, Public and Private, won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992. She began her journalism career in 1974 as a reporter for the New York Post. Between 1977 and 1994 she held several posts at The New York Times. Her semi-autobiographical novel One True Thing (1994) served as the basis for the 1998 film starring Meryl Streep and Renée Zellweger.
Life and career
Anna Quindlen was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 8, 1953, the daughter of Prudence (née Pantano, 1928–1972) and Robert Quindlen. Her father was Irish American and her mother was Italian American. Quindlen graduated in 1970 from South Brunswick High School in S...
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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.
- 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.
- I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
- I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
- 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.
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