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“After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.”
Ann Richards
“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.”
Ann Richards
“The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.”
Ann Richards
“I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.”
Ann Richards
“Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.”
Ann Richards
“I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.”
Ann Richards, High Heels and Backwards
“You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.”
Ann Richards
“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.”
Ann Richards
“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.”
Ann Richards

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