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You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.

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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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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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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Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it's not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
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Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well!
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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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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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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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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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Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.
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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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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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