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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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Ann Richards
Age: 73 †
Born: 1933
Born: September 1
Died: 2006
Died: September 13
Former Governor Of Texas
Politician
Lacy Lakeview
Texas
Dorothy Ann Richards
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Sadness
Recognize
Grief
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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'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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Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
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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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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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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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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 not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.
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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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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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I have an awfully good life.
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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'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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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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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 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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I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
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People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.
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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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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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