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There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn’t bother to change while there are women like that around.

Annie Oakley

Any woman who does not thoroughly enjoy tramping across the country on a clear frosty morning with a good gun and a pair of dogs does not know how to enjoy life.
ANNIE OAKLEY

Country Dog Enjoyment Goodness Life Morning Weapon Woman
For me, sitting still is harder than any kind of work.
ANNIE OAKLEY

Hard Kind Myself Work
Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.
ANNIE OAKLEY

Home Human Possible Work
My mother, was perfectly horrified when I began shooting and tried to keep me in school, but I would run away and go quail shooting in the woods or trim my dresses with wreaths of wildflowers.
ANNIE OAKLEY

Beginning Flower Mom Myself Perfection Try Wild
Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.
ANNIE OAKLEY

Duty Family Idol Responsibility
There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn’t bother to change while there are women like that around.
ANNIE OAKLEY

Change Man Myself Woman
Aim for the high mark and you will hit it. No, not the first time, not the second time and maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting for only practice will make you perfect. Finally you’ll hit the bull’s-eye of success.
ANNIE OAKLEY

Mark Practice Time
After traveling through fourteen foreign countries and appearing before all the royalty and nobility I have only one wish today. That is that when my eyes are closed in death that they will bury me back in that quiet little farm land where I was born.
ANNIE OAKLEY

Appearance Born Bury Country Death Eyes Foreign Myself Quiet Travel
Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals.
ANNIE OAKLEY

Development Goodness Home Mom Quality Separate
Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman’s natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.
ANNIE OAKLEY

Career Mom Natural Society Woman
Any woman who does not thoroughly enjoy tramping across the country on a clear frosty morning with a good gun and a pair of dogs does not know how to enjoy life.
ANNIE OAKLEY

Country Dog Enjoyment Goodness Life Morning Weapon Woman
I ain’t afraid to love a man.
ANNIE OAKLEY

Afraid Love Man Myself
A crowned queen was never treated with more reverence than I was by those whole-souled western boys, And for seventeen long years I was just their little sister, sharing both their news of joy and sorrow from home.
ANNIE OAKLEY

Boy Home Joy Queen Sister Sorrow Soul
If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.
ANNIE OAKLEY

Existence Integrity Love Myself Person Reality Relationship
I ain’t afraid to love a man. I ain’t afraid to shoot him either.
ANNIE OAKLEY

Afraid Funny Kill Love Man Myself Shoot
Aim at a high mark and you will hit it.
ANNIE OAKLEY

Hit Inspirational Mark Yourself

There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn’t bother to change while there are women like that around.

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