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 OAKLEYBeing 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.
More Annie Oakley Quotes
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I ain’t afraid to love a man. I ain’t afraid to shoot him either.
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I would like to see every woman know how to handle guns as naturally as they know how to handle babies.
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Aim at a high mark and you will hit it.
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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.
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For me, sitting still is harder than any kind of work.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.
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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.
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I ain’t afraid to love a man.
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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.
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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.
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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.
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