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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.

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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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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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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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I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
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If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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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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I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
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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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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 did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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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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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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