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Quotes by First-lady
"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it."
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"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness."
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"I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them."
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"There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all."
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"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity."
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"Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people."
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"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot."
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"The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse."
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"What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?"
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"Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall."
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"It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late."
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"There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed."
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"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much."
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"At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent."
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"The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. If you can live through that, you can live through anything. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."
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"Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it."
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"Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression."
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"I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America."
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"I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty."
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"Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could."
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"Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world."
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"The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares."
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"If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation."
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"As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along."
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"Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated."
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"You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way."
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"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
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"Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes."
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"I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me fishing, camping and hunting. Then I was sorry that more girls could not have what I had. When I learned of the movement, I thought, here is what I always wanted other girls to have."
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"Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man."
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"Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?"
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"If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home."
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"I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues."
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"I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady."
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"But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine."
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"The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband."
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"Any first lady can do whatever they want to do. In this country, people expect them to work on whatever they want or to have a career of their own."
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"Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?"
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"I mean, we are facing so many very, very important issues and those are the issues that you heard talked about last night from the Republican convention, and that you'll hear my husband talk about. And those are the really important issues facing our country right now."
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"There is a growing wave in this country of fear, and of intolerance which springs from fear. Sometimes it is a religious intolerance, sometimes it is a racial intolerance, but all intolerance grows from the same roots."
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"I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives."
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"When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable."
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"I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it."
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"I'm not the one who was elected. I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view."
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"Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken."
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"Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday."
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