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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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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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 have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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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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We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.
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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'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.
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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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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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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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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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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 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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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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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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I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
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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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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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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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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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