I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had … - Anna Quindlen

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Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.

Anna Quindlen

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.

Core, Life, Life Lesson, Men, Mother, Realized

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Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting older than we pretend. It was interesting to me when I first started working on this book that I'd mentioned that I was writing a memoir about aging and everybody would moan and groan and carry on.

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I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehersal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.

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Not writing at all leads to nothing.

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Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.

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When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.

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