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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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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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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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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We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
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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 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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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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I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
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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 have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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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 feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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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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After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
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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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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 did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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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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The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
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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'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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