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I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.

Ann Richards

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Ann Richards
Age: 73 †
Born: 1933
Born: September 1
Died: 2006
Died: September 13
Former Governor Of Texas
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Osteoporosis is a disease that attacks the bones in your body. It happens to really almost everyone when they get really old. But for women, after menopause, they can lose up to 30 percent of their bone mass.
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Young women should begin to build bone mass early in their lives. The more mass there is, the less they will lose in later life. They should enjoy a diet of calcium-rich foods and avoid food and drink that causes bone loss.
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I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
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They blame the low income women for ruining the country because they are staying home with their children and not going out to work. They blame the middle income women for ruining the country because they go out to work and do not stay home to take care of their children.
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We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.
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Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
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I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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A road to a friend's house is never long.
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Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.
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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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You bet being funny helps accomplish things. I've always maintained that people don't realize how many brain cells it takes to be funny. And politics ought to be fun -- after baseball it's our next favorite national pastime.
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We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
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I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.
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Doctors are our partners, and they need all the assistance we can give them to be sure we get the right diagnosis.
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We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.
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Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.
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The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
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I'm against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don't pay income tax.
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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'
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