"It is not what you do for your Children, but what you have taug...

"It is not what you do for your Children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings"

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Esther Pauline "Eppie" Lederer (née Friedman; (1918 – 2002), better known by the pen name Ann Landers, was an American advice columnist and eventually a nationwide media celebrity. She began writing the "Ask Ann Landers" column in 1955 and continued for 47 years, by which time its readership was 90 million people. A 1978 World Almanac survey named her the most influential woman in the United States. She was the identical twin sister of Pauline Phillips, who wrote the "Dear Abby" advice column as Abigail Van Buren.