All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.

—Anna Quindlen

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Anna Marie Quindlen (born July 8, 1952) is an American author, journalist, and opinion columnist.

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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.

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The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.

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Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

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O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

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I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

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