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Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.

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
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Life

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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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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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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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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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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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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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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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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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 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'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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Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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