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"You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment."
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"I have both the violent turbulence of the storm and the quiet promises of God in the storm. And what I must work to remember is that something is not necessarily stronger simply because it's louder."
"When relationship is gone, the strength for life is gone and there is no more energy to live."
"A thought can be cast down by speaking out loud words of resistance and words of God."
"Job is an optimist. He shakes the pillars of the world and strikes insanely at the heavens; he lashes the stars, but it is not to silence them; it is to make them speak."
"Pain that results in success is better than pleasure that results in failure."
"As rain does not bother the ocean, nor heat bother the sun, so adversity does not bother the great."
"There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of superiority, his moment of impressiveness."
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"Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum."
"People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician."
"Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture."
"Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live."
"If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics."
"The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short."
"If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one."
"Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall."
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