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Little has been written about the role of the jane, as I prefer to call the female john, in the life of the contemporary career woman.... In some ways it has replaced the old consciousness-raising group as a setting for the free exchange of ideas about men, work, children, personal development, and the ridiculous price of pantyhose. In most offices, it is one of the few spots in which a woman employee can pause, throw back her head, and say, loudly, "Men are so stupid sometimes I want to shoot all of them."
(Anna Quindlen (20th century), U.S. journalist, novelist. Living Out Loud, "The Jane," (1988).)
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For weeks or months they moved through their separate lives and slept side by side as though they were two strangers who had mistakenly been assigned the same hotel room. And then something would happen and he would find himself staring at her as though he could see the soul of her, looking for an end to his troubles inside the loop of her arms, and he would be snagged with the fishhook of herself, with the barbed hook of his powerless infatuation with something that she seemed to have, some answer that she seemed to offer.
(Anna Quindlen (b. 1952), U.S. journalist, columnist, author. Tommy, in Object Lessons, pp. 263-264, Ivy Press (1991).)
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It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for their daughters, and their sons, too. It's the way we talk about and treat one another. It's who makes the money and who makes the compromises and who makes the dinner. It's a state of mind. It's the way we live now.
(Anna Quindlen (20th century), U.S. journalist and novelist. "And Now, Babe Feminism," New York Times (January 19, 1994).)
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People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage to their servile and salivating roots own dogs.
(Anna Quindlen (b. 1952), U.S. journalist, columnist, author. (April 7, 1991). Thinking Out Loud, p. 122, Random House (1993).)
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If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be inexpensive, too.
(Anna Quindlen (b. 1952), U.S. journalist, columnist, author. The New York Times. Living Out Loud, p. 31, Fawcett Columbine (1988).)
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Parents have railed against shelters near schools, but no one has made any connection between the crazed consumerism of our kids and their elders' cold unconcern toward others. Maybe the homeless are not the only ones who need to spend time in these places to thaw out.
(Anna Quindlen (b. 1952), U.S. journalist, columnist, author. (December 2, 1990). Thinking Out Loud, p. 41, Random House (1993).
On shelters for the homeless at Christmas.)
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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 (b. 1952), U.S. journalist, columnist, author. Ellen Gulden, in One True Thing, p. 288, Random House (1994).)
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