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I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn't be so outspoken.
I've learned a lot about myself. Most of it is all right. When I add up the pluses and subtract the minuses, I still come out pretty well.
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.
I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.
To be a good parent, you need to take care of yourself so that you can have the physical and emotional energy to take care of your family.
With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.
The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.
If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.
Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
I feel it's important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very empty life.
When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - we can do it.
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, [Jack] always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.
Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont to look like Vermont.
It should be fun introducing kids to fruits and vegetables. If you start young, it will be something that they'll attach to really quickly.
When it comes to the qualifications that we should demand of our president, to start with, we need someone who will take the job seriously.
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.
This is a strange, little, complacent country [Switzerland], in many ways a USA in miniature but of course nearer the center of disturbance!
Some of my best memories are sitting on my dad's lap, cheering on Olga and Nadia, Carl Lewis and others for their brilliance and perfection.
I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.
I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens.
You don't have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don't need any special equipment - that's the beauty of it.
Talent and effort, combined with our various backgrounds and life experiences, has always been the lifeblood of our singular American genius.
You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.
Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive.
Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
I try to tell young people to get in shape now, because it's easier. If you're 30 and want to drop 10 pounds, all you have to do is just walk.
I'm particularly happy that the Ronald Reagan Building is both public and private, and embraces his lifelong belief... in free and open trade.
We know how to treat depression, we know how to treat mental illness, and we have not had the political will in our country to make it happen.
I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few
If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world.
Educated people can make their own choices about their governments. And certainly for women, an education allows you to understand your rights.
I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.
We need to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation. We have lost our way. And it begins with inspiration. It begins with leadership.
You've got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That's it; that's the way we move forward. That's how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.
Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It's supposed to be fun.
The problem with drugs is that people forget to stop doing them. There’s a time and a place for everything, Mr. Mackey, and it’s called college.
And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take.
Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.
Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.
You've got to make choices that make sense for you because there's always going to be somebody who'll think you should do something differently.
The one thing I believe is that families are off-limits. And I think my husband said it, and he was clear on that. And I totally agree with him.
The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.
We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can't just pop off or lash out irrationally.