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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.

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
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I'm a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor so's George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don't mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.
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I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.
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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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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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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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There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.
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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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I'm a little old-fashioned.
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You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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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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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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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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 know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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I think a lot of our problems are because people don't listen to our children. It is not always easy. They're not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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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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