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You have to recognize that deep within your soul, you know who you are - and let [the criticism] go right by you. If you're reacting to it, you're letting it get to you.

Ann Romney

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Ann Romney
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 16
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Homekeeper
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Bloomfield Hills
Michigan
Ann Lois Davies
Ann Lois Romney
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I think we identify ourselves by labels or things that we are able to do: I am this. I am a good cook. I am a good mother. I am a good this. I am a good doctor. I am a good lawyer. When you can’t do those things anymore, you wonder where your identity is.
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It can be here today and gone tomorrow.
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We need to respect choices that women make.
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And I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that because the days are long, the road is hard, the trials are there and I never know when, I have this little gray cloud that's over my head, when it's gonna start raining on me again. And I do need everyone's prayers. But I also believe that we're here for a purpose, and Mitt is prepared.
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Another son came along 18 months later, although we waited four years to have the third, because Mitt was still in school and we had no income except the stock we were chipping away at. We were living on the edge, not entertaining. No, I did not work. Mitt thought it was important for me to stay home with the children, and I was delighted.
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It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.
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The greatest advantage of being First Lady is the opportunity it presents to truly make a difference on issues of great importance.
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Once your health is taken away, you have nothing.
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Multiple Sclerosis is obviously close to my heart and I'm determined to make a difference in the lives of people who suffer from the disease by raising the profile of MS, as well as raising funds for advocacy and research.
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Everybody has problems. Everyone has issues.
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As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.
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The thing that's nice about pregnancy is that in the end, you have a baby.
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I know what it's like to finish the laundry and to look in the basket five minutes later and it's full again. I know what it's like to pull all the groceries in, and see the teenagers run through, and all of a sudden, all of the groceries you just bought a few hours ago are gone.
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When I was so fatigued that I couldn't move, the excitement of going to the barn and getting my foot in the stirrup would make me crawl out of bed.
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My faith experience, well, as you can imagine, you need a lot of faith to raise five boys.
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A storybook marriage? No, not at all. What Mitt Romney and I have is a real marriage.
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There have been so many people that have come up and embraced me as an example of what it's like to face something tough and just get up the next day and keep pushing.
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I am so mad at the press I could just strangle them!
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I love the fact that there are also women out there that don't have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids. Thank goodness that we value those people too.
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When you're used to being healthy and strong and vibrant and everything and then - bang - overnight you're desperately ill, it's frightening.
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