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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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Ann Richards
Age: 73 †
Born: 1933
Born: September 1
Died: 2006
Died: September 13
Former Governor Of Texas
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Lacy Lakeview
Texas
Dorothy Ann Richards
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I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.
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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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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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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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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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A road to a friend's house is never long.
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I've always told my children that life is like a layer cake. You get to put one layer on top of the other, and whether you frost it or not is up to you.
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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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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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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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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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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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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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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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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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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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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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One of the truths of our time is the hunger deep in people are over the planet for coming into relationship with each other.
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We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.
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Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
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