But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.
Anna QuindlenTag: feminism
The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.
Anna QuindlenA week in the hospital she had told us. A hysterectomy, she had said. It had seemed unremarkable to me in a woman of forty-six long finished with childbearing, although every day that I grow older I realize there is never anything unremarkable about losing any part of what makes you female - a breast, a womb, a child, a man.
Anna QuindlenDon't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first.
Anna QuindlenTag: inspirational
Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that won’t happen. We have to teach ourselves how to make room for them, to love them, and to live, really live.
Anna QuindlenI wondered why I hadn't loved that day more, why I hadn't savored every bit of it...why I hadn't known how good it was to live so normally, so everyday. But you only know that, I suppose, after it's not normal and every day any longer.
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You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
Anna QuindlenThere's some muscle group around your shoulders that seizes up during the perfection dance and doesn't let go until you are asleep, or alone. Or maybe it never really lets go at all.
Anna QuindlenSpeech is the voice of the heart.
Anna QuindlenAll reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.
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