Quotes from Ann Richards

I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.

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

We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.

Well, you know, too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.

I think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the decisiveness of it.

People work for a living. They got families to raise. Their lives are tough.

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

We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.

Osteoporosis is a disease that attacks the bones in your body. It happens to really almost everyone when they get really old. But for women, after menopause, they can lose up to 30 percent of their bone mass.

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

I don't think people maybe think that the government does tell them the truth. I think they expect politicians who are going to tell them one thing and then when they get in office do something else.

I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.

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

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

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

People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.

I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.

Everything that we used to think got taught at home now seemingly has to be taught in the public school system, and something is going to get lost in the process.

We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.

I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.

There is not a doubt in my mind that the people of America are hunkered down. They are afraid.

We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.

A road to a friend's house is never long.