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...appeal has been to a very specific constituency--middle class women on the cusp of professional careers. It's no coincidence that Quindlen's popularity rose at just about the time that professional women in running shoes descended upon the land like comfortably-shod locusts...
...enter the world sketched by Anna Quindlen is to enter an airless space and to run the risk of asphyxiation. Quindlen's column is an oddity on The New York Times' opinion page. She does not have the moral stature of an Anthony Lewis and lacks the appeal of William Safire's burr-in-the-saddle testiness. She cannot begin to match Frank Rich's omnivorous cultural appetite. Yet she has a devoted following...
...Quindlen's position on the Op-Ed page was in part testimony to the importance of shifting demographics and fortuitous positioning--factors which assume importance in the face of a talent as tiny as hers...
There will eventually be other women columnists after Quindlen, of course, but there is no telling if their writings will achieve the same mix of social commentary and personal reflection. They may instead choose a style more similar to columnists A.M. Rosenthal or William Safire...
...demise of Quindlen's "Public and Private" column represents the demise of a style of writing on the Times op-ed page: the loss of a voice that cultivates both the personal and political. There may be no other social commentator--male or female--that can replace that...