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After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

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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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Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
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I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.
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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.
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I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
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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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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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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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One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.
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There is a special mystique to Texas. Texans represent many things to the uninitiated: We are bigger than life in our boots and Stetsons, rugged individualists whose two-steppin' has achieved world-wide acclaim, and we were the first to define hospitality.
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I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
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If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
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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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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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I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.
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Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up.
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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.
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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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Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.
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I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
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