Quotes from Ann Richards

Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

I work very hard on my health, and I think about it, of course, like I've never thought before.

I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics.

I travel all over the country making speeches for people I believe in.

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.

The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.

You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.

The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense.

They blame the low-income women for ruining the country because they're staying home with their children and not going out to work. They blame the middle-income women for ruining the country because they go out to work and do not stay home to take care of their children.

Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.

I have an awfully good life.

Well it's really hard to satisfy the right wing. I can tell you that.

I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.

There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.

I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.

I've had lots of good advice.

I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics.