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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.
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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Lacy Lakeview
Texas
Dorothy Ann Richards
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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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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've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
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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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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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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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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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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 feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.
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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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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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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 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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You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.
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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've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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