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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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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
Mostly
Hair
Men
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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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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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I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
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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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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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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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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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Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
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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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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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I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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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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Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
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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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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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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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If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.
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