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I'm a little old-fashioned.

Barbara Bush

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Barbara Bush
Age: 92 †
Born: 1925
Born: June 8
Died: 2018
Died: April 17
Former First Lady Of The United States
Politician
Manhattan borough
New York City
Barbara Pierce Bush
Barbara Pierce
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Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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Your success as a family... our success as a nation... depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.
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I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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As if we don't have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.
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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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Show me a wife who doesn't offer advice and I'll show you one who doesn't care very much.
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I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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I'm not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I'm saying that if you opt for children - be you man or woman - you have to take care of them.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
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Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
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You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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