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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.

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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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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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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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People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.
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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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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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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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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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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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You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.
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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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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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I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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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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Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
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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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I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
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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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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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