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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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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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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 saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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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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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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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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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'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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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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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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You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.
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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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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'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.
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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've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
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