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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Annie Oakley

I would like to see every woman know how to handle guns as naturally as they know how to handle babies.
ANNIE OAKLEY

Children Myself Natural Weapon Woman
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
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
Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.
ANNIE OAKLEY

Duty Family Idol Responsibility
[On Sitting Bull] The contents of his pockets were often emptied into the hands of small, ragged little boys, nor could he understand how so much wealth should go brushing by, unmindful of the poor.
ANNIE OAKLEY

Empty Hands Mindset Poor Small Understand Wealth
Even in the best and most peacefully civilized countries many occasions arise when a woman versed in the knowledge and use of fire arms may find that information and skill of great importance.
ANNIE OAKLEY

Best Civilization Country Greatness Importance Knowledge Peace Skills Woman
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
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
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
I ain’t afraid to love a man.
ANNIE OAKLEY

Afraid Love Man Myself
For me, sitting still is harder than any kind of work.
ANNIE OAKLEY

Hard Kind Myself 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
God intended women to be outside as well as men, and they do not know what they are missing when they stay cooped up in the house.
ANNIE OAKLEY

God Man Missing Stay 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

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

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